Anna Paterson employs techniques associated with printmaking and domestic cleaning to produce paintings that elude norms of composition and resolution. Working exclusively on paper, there is a heightened tension between surface, object and image. Her paintings are continually scoured, scrubbed and re-worked until a certain unforeseen ‘spaciousness’ is found, fluctuating between photographic flatness and receding depths of colour. This experimental process results in iterative surfaces that accumulate the traces of their own production, yet often remain sparse and suggestive of images of molecular, satellite, or architectural detail. Her works for Liste Basel consider varying degrees of compositional contraction and expansion and continue to be strongly influenced by forms of printed media and the photographic image.