Up until last year, I photographed in black and white, drew with black pen, painted with oil or water without pigments, with India ink or photographed white LEDs lines drawn in the night…

Until last year when I rediscovered colour.

Colour entered my work by surprise in my black and white world and I love it.

Light, explosive, cheerful, moving, joyful, radiant, free… playing with colour fascinates me.

It took me so long to find it again, that the happiness is even greater. 30 years of avoidance suddenly evaporated.

I use the colour from the tube with my fingers, mixing the paint with my hands and directly applying the mixture from my palm to increase the closeness and communication between my body and the work. I travel across the canvas making marks as I go. The process is a journey across the surface.

I dream about associations and contradictions between colours. My work plays with tones and colour clashs. Juxtapositions intensify the effects.

Colour is a game, every mark surprises me. Creating links, mixing and creating associations excites me. Through these encounters, waves of energies are created, always with the lines continuity from my previous work. My marks are bursts of energy.

Drawn lines are sometimes inspired by the comic book language, notations and symbols that suggest speed, surprise and diverse interactions in a minimal way.

When I swapped my darkroom for an artist 's studio in 2004, I had a sort of ritual arriving in the morning at the studio consisting of drawing an horizontal line in the lower part of a notebook on several pages in a row. One line at a time, one line a page, several pages in a row. Black line on a white page. Like a warm up or a meditative exercise, the drawing of the lines was an introduction to my day of work. Over the years, the straight line has evolved to incorporating emotions and accidents and became a journey on the paper creating an abstract landscape.

When I swapped my darkroom for an artist 's studio in 2004, I had a sort of ritual arriving in the morning at the studio consisting of drawing an horizontal line in the lower part of a notebook on several pages in a row. One line at a time, one line a page, several pages in a row. Black line on a white page. Like a warm up or a meditative exercise, the drawing of the lines was an introduction to my day of work. Over the years, the straight line has evolved to incorporating emotions and accidents and became a kind of abstract writing. Like a diary, witnessing years of evolution, and now I write everywhere with this personal langage.

when Anne Leigniel travels or commutes as a passenger she puts a drawing pad on her lap and draws the landscape in real time as it evolves before her eyes. She draws what she sees and what she sees is constantly changing. Somehow, lines representing the chosen elements of her journey become superimposed and an abstract atmosphere emerges. 

 The title on each piece indicates where the drawing was started, where it ended, the date and the means of transportation. The size of the drawings (29x39cm) is dictated by the size of the artist’s backpack. This minimalistic equipment, a drawing pad and pen, gives her the freedom to work at it anywhere.

This series is for her a return to the meditative calm of the observational drawing blended with the hypnotic effect of traveling.

In 2015, Anne has shown a series of 150  drawings from a year travel from London to Tokyo . Galerie Komagome-14cas in Tokyo.

From the Kendo series