About Ann
Ann Generlich
Emotion & connection
East Berlin-born artist Ann Generlich lives and works in Buckinghamshire, England. Her work explores sensuality, connection and the human form.
For Ann, the body is a universal language, expressing joy, pain, desire and vulnerability without words. Nature is equally present, its underlying geometry isolated, enlarged and brought back into view.
Ann’s background spans art, design and media. She holds an MA in Art, Craft and Design Education and is the founder of AG Collaboration.
The Work
Vision, emotion & form
Ann describes her work as communion, a deep, silent connection in which an image is both seen and felt. A moment of calm, belonging and entry into another layer of reality.
Recognition is not always immediate. A work may remain unresolved until an unexpected glance shifts perception and the image falls into place. Ann is drawn to that instant, and to the unguarded pleasure of suddenly seeing what was there all along.
In Conversation
A few questions with Ann
The body acts as a universal language. It communicates joy, pain, desire and vulnerability without words.
Nature combines geometry so elegantly that it disappears from view, until you zoom in or out. Recombining those elements is fascinating.
Each piece, or a collection, can start from any sense, touch, taste, smell or sight, but they all trigger an instantaneous inner impulse, which you try your best to bring into reality.
Communion means a deep, silent connection. It's that moment when you see and feel the image before you begin to draw. It's the moment you join a different layer of reality. It brings calm and a sense of belonging. It turns the act of making or viewing art into a sacred, intimate dialogue.
Each collection has a name to express its core. In the Symphony collection, you have many individual lines that, if viewed in isolation, represent something totally different to seeing all the lines playing together to reveal the artwork.
Some of my artworks don't reveal themselves quickly. You could be looking at one of my works and see nothing but random shapes. What I love is when someone walks away, throws a passing glance back at the work, and suddenly it falls into place, fully enjoying the moment, letting go and seeing the art for what it was.