Anouk’s drawings rely on the nostalgia of Romanticism, mythology and storytelling to depict melancholic worlds, undefined by time, space or location. Combining fragments from 17th and 18th Century landscape etchings, references to vintage postcards with her own mark making, her work confuses the boundaries of what is ‘real’, taking on a dream-like quality.

Celebrating the power of imagination to escape the quotidian and the mundane, Anouk’s drawings prompt the creation of narratives by encouraging the viewer to follow the paths of fantastical landscapes and still lifes. Her work presents a continuous search for escapism through the portrayal of a fragmented, yet beautiful ideal whilst also exploring the mysterious, the abysmal and the uncanny that often lurks behind such idylls.

Anouk’s botanical work is partly inspired by her family history as well as her collection of botanical vintage postcards. Anouk is fascinated by the uncanny contrast or the duality which seems to exist between the cheerful inscriptions inside the postcards such ‘happy birthday’ or ‘happy anniversary’ and the nostalgia of the black and white lifeless flower arrangements depicted.

After studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, Anouk went on to read Art and Visual Culture at UWE, Bristol.  In 2008 she won the Innes Wilkin Art in Architecture Prize and since has gone on to exhibit in a number of group shows including exhibitions at the RWA, Spike Island and the Bristol Drawing School. In June 2011 Anouk had her first solo exhibition at La Galerie, Clamecy, France.

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