Based in London, Anna Ruiz works with printmaking and print design to create unique hand-made images. With a background in the fast-paced fashion industry, she is now devoted to the slow and contemplative process of linocut, a relief printing technique, in which sight, sound, smell, and touch play an integral role.
Anna’s illustrations often combine imagery derived from dreams and research into fairytales. Her works are invitations to the viewer to bring attention to the richness of their own inner world, fostering well-being. Increasingly, Anna’s artistic inquiry is focused on exploring the stages of women’s psychological growth, and how these stages are represented symbolically in both the mythology of past civilisations and the imagination of women today.
She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from the London College of Communication in 2007 and has received further training at the Art Academy London. Following graduation, Anna worked as a print designer for Blackstone Design, a fashion retailer, alongside other clients including Topshop, Asos, Miss Selfridges, and Mango. She also practised as a Senior Designer for the acclaimed fashion designer Jonathan Sanders. For the past 5 years, alongside being a working mother of two, Anna has developed her independent artistic work, a follower base, and has set up a studio in SE18 with an etching press from the late 1800s.
In 2017 she presented a solo exhibition at Club Casa Camper in Barcelona titled Welcome to the Show, and in 2020 was part of the charitable project TotCor (“All Heart”), created to help people express beyond what they can put into words. Anna’s prints have been included in the collectable bi-annual publication The Liberty Book (London, 2019), and featured in the bi-lingual journal Wimblu (Costa Rica, 2020) sharing stories at the threshold of ecology and culture.
www.annaruiz.net
@ms_anna_ruiz
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