Anne Cécile de Bruyne
Anne-Cécile comes from a long line of painters and “knew at the age of two-and-a-half”, whilst sitting for her great uncle, that she wanted to be behind an easel herself.
Much of her childhood was spent with her family in Cornwall, at her present home on the Lizard, though her art training was in Florence and at Cambridge and Chelsea Art Schools. An intellectual, even mathematical approach in the ‘60s and ‘70s led her work through abstraction to super-realism and always in search of the ‘Universal Image'. In the ‘90s she was painting interiors almost as still-life – but hinting at the recent presence of people in the room. Whilst living in London and Cambridge this work was regularly on exhibition at Bruton Street Gallery in London and in frequent exhibitions abroad.
Returning a few years ago with her husband Peter Fluck to the site of her childhood has brought about a sea-change in Anne-Cecile's work. Her studio overlooks a vast expanse of sea in ever-changing light. Her response to this fluidity of hue and movement has come from her heart and her senses. Suffused with light, her paintings have become more abstract and sensuous, conveying what she feels rather than what she thinks.
Gilly Wyatt-Smith
EDUCATION
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Lycee Francais de Londres
Universita per Stranieri, Florence
Cambridge Art School
Chelsea Art School |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2000-2001
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2005
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Artbank, Clerkenwell, London
Bishop Phillpotts Gallery, Truro
Bishop Phillpotts Gallery, Truro
Bishop Phillpotts Gallery, Truro
Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah
Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge
Falmouth Art Centre, Falmouth with Silverwell Creative |
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