In her paintings, Anne Vignal transforms landscapes and cityscapes into gauzy, dream-like worlds. She revels in wide swaths of nebulous colours brought into contrasting focus by distinct lines etched into the paint - a moment of stillness amid a flurry of motion. The lines electrify the surfaces of each canvas. Although sometimes they appear to be frolicking across the paint in a jubilant fashion and at other times they appear subdued and quiet - such as when they are depicting a small, simplified house or bird - the lines always create a sense of unification, order and depth in the image. Their floating, shimmering allure forbid an audience to limit their participation to only a distant viewing, but instead draws them in for closer observation. Vignal takes Henri Michaux's precept of "letting a line dream" to it zenith.
Vignal confidently and unhesitatingly absorbs essential elements from numerous 20th Century masters, such as the blue of David Hockney's swimming pool, the plant-like sensory geometry of a Paul Klee chessboard, the dazzling light of Matisse's aquatic style and consummately combines them to create her own radiant worlds.