"Woven Reflections (Reflets Tissés)" Artwork - Limited Edition of 300

Anne Turlais is a French painter and printmaker. She lives and works in Cabrerets, a village in the Lot valley in south-west France, where she keeps her studio-gallery a few steps from the Pech-Merle cave.

She painted her first picture at fourteen, the dovecote on her parents’ farm, as a gift for her dying grandfather. Of that first painting she writes, “In giving, I was given.” For fourteen years she then searched on her own, with no art school and nature as her only teacher. At seventeen, a short stay in London introduced her to Turner, her first artistic encounter. Since then she has painted “what cannot be seen but exists powerfully, within us and around us”, around three axes, light, space and openness.

Around 1990 she learned engraving with Maryon Mudd, then intaglio printing in Tanguy Garric’s studio in Paris. She works in mezzotint, drypoint, aquatint, burin and woodcut, almost always in black ink, and she has made several artist’s books, among them engravings for Éditions Fata Morgana. She also paints in oil, on canvas and on paper.

In late 2014 she began painting with her finger on an iPad. She sees a kinship between the finger tracings left in the Pech-Merle cave tens of thousands of years ago, the engraver’s point and her own finger on the screen. Three collections followed. Vague d’Amour (2016) is a painting every morning for a year, Horizon 2020 (2020 to 2022) a painting every Sunday through the lockdowns, and Ouvert Sur (2022 to 2023) a portrait-format painting every fortnight. These paintings have been shown every day in a palliative care unit, a hospital, care homes and a primary school, to bring beauty wherever it is needed.

Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Brussels and Marrakech, and it has joined private collections in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Japan. In 2025 and 2026 she was in residence at the Villa Panthéon in Paris, where she created the artist’s book “L’Arbre de Vie” (The Tree of Life) with the poet Camille-Madeleine Deschenes-Hamel.

The works offered here are signed and numbered limited editions of her finger paintings, printed with pigment inks on Fine Art paper by Picto in Toulouse.