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Ann Winder-Boyle
Ann Winder-Boyle is a mixed media collage artist who explores the themes of childhood, time and space. Her images evoke memories and emotions that draw the viewer into a strangely familiar place that can engender either a feeling of deep comfort or an inexplicable sense of unease. Using nostalgia as the emotive key, Ann combines a variety of processes with a diverse range of materials, including old books, beeswax, bindings and wood. Ann has a first class BA (Hons) degree and has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for three consecutive years
About Ann
"Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them." Andrew Graham Dixon, leading art critic, presenter of the BBC’s flagship arts program ‘The Culture Show’ and columnist for the Sunday Telegraph.
Ann's art form initially developed as an emotional and therapeutic response to a period of personal distress, and has developed and progressed to explore the link between expectation and our sense of fulfillment. In the days following her mother’s death she found many items, including old family photos, letters and a collection of her father’s childhood books, which had been lovingly inscribed by various members of his family. She found these hand-written inscriptions touching and it highlighted the transient nature of time and the sadness inherent in our natural decay The small scale of the pieces entices the viewer to move closer, creating a personal and intimate experience. The work is richly layered and often incorporates complex and challenging scenes. The use of age-withered books and beeswax creates a visually nostalgic experience and the unpredictability of working with the beeswax in the final stages adds a sense of serendipity. In recent times Ann has begun to translate her illustrations into hand-twisted wire drawings which are then mounted on old books. The materials allow her to transform the lines she makes on paper into three-dimensional physical drawings in space. These sculptures, influenced by the same themes of nostalgia and childhood are a source of ongoing adventure. Her subject matter and tone: sometimes edgy, sometimes playful is open to personal interpretation, and yet always with a sense of reference to happiness and its relationship to expectation. Ann has recently featured on the BBC2’s Culture Show, the program was part of the coverage of last year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and followed the work of four artists selected by the art critic Andrew Graham Dixon, from their studio through the rigorous selection process through to the eventual hanging, her submission ‘The Dealer’ was selected for the Summer Show.
Ann's Work
