Ann Winder-Boyle British
“My 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.”
Ann Winder-Boyle began working as an artist after discovering her father’s old childhood books in the attic, following her mother’s death. These intimate and personal events of her life inspired her to become an artist and have undoubtedly remained a recurring theme through which her entire body of work is filtered through.
She is a mixed media artist who works mainly with children’s vintage books from the 1940’s onwards. Inspired by the embossed titles she creates her own drawings on paper, that are cut out and applied to the plain book cover that sits on ply wood, suggestive of the original book pages. The use of beeswax to seal the artworks serves multiple goals. The medium works as a preservative as well as embodying the fragile and short nature of time.
Winder-Boyle’s work has an overall sense of irresistible nostalgia, that can be soothingly comforting as her imagery incorporates childhood innocence, transience of youth and a ‘moral of the story’ like style that is popular in children’s literature.
