Anna is one of those.

During the last General Assembly meeting, RSA Members elected five new Academicians: Julie Brook, Anna Geerdes, Moyna Flannigan, Denise Bennetts and Eilidh Henderson.

This is what they have to say about Anna:

Anna Geerdes RSA (Elect) was born in the Netherlands and moved to Hoy, Orkney in 1991. She studied at Gray’s School of Art before moving to Glasgow, where she lived and worked for ten years. Anna recently moved back to Hoy to live in an abandoned cottage, as yet without electricity or even a road. It is here that she has chosen to carve out a home for herself and her art, with the stark landscape providing inspiration for her paintings.