Anne Leigniel is an artist working across multiple disciplines, creating works that respond to nature in all its multi-faceted ways, which may be working with the landscape in a site or materially responsive way. It is about being immersed in the environment around her, engaging with and using the materials or the people that surround her.
Another thread of the work is physicality - texture, movement. The structure of logs that are dismantled and reassembled into new form, delicate strings, branches and stones bending into new forms, flowing sheets of plastic within a rural landscape.
Drawings and paintings are circular to the process as they are like embodiments of memories, dreams, narratives, journeys; a form of abstract mapping. Sometimes created in the elements themselves, in fields, against buildings etc.
Anne’s work is an invitation to experience the world around you and to be playful, to re-read things differently- to draw your attention to a moment in time, amplifying unseen moments and a detail – and the richness that lies therein…