Master in Painting, St-Lucas Ghent. Docent in BKO, Overijse. Studio Heist op den Berg, Belgium. Ann Grillet (1961) is a painter who works abstractly with colours, creating works that draw the attention to details but creates an image that brings the parts together in a balance.
The paintings are like windows, with the many layers of paint being read slowly. Allowing the coincidences that happen during the process of the different layers of paint is elementary.
The interplay of light, transparency and structure gives the paintings a tactility and vitality.
THE INNER LANDSCAPES OF ANN GRILLET - Colourist
-Text: Annelies Vanbelle-
Ann Grillet is intrigued by how colours interact and enter into a dialogue with each other. That is why she remains committed to abstraction, because this is the ideal playing field for her very own language. Always fascinated by landscapes, by looking differently from the others and perhaps seeing more, by looking inside too, through windows to peeling or broken walls or through our inner window. You can see her works as mental spaces in which you can walk around. They play on your inner landscape and take you along.
Each work by Ann Grillet is a mystery, but its possible heaviness is lifted by the obvious pleasure of painting, the playful additions and shapes, the vital colours that you discover through the layering and in the margins of each canvas. The transparency means that you are simultaneously drawn into each work, but are still left very free in your interpretation.