About

Born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1961 to a Swedish mother and Franco-British father, Ann Robinson is a self-taught artist based in the western suburbs of Paris. Her creative journey began with drawing in her childhood, soon followed by experiments in textile crafts which first introduced her to the tactile art of mixing colour and texture.

For over thirty years, Ann dedicated her practice to painting, deeply influenced by the Impressionist tradition and Claude Monet’s steady evolution towards abstraction. This period established nature and landscape as the core of her inspiration, a focus that remains essential to her work today.

In the spring of 2012 Ann reached a turning point, moving from painting to working exclusively with used Paris metro tickets. This shift was an extension of her lifelong exploration of colour and form, while offering a newfound graphic freedom. By dyeing, tearing, and layering, these modern fragments, she found that the ticket's iconic magnetic strip and rectangular form provided an inexhaustible resource for both geometric and organic compositions.

For Ann, the ticket is more than a utilitarian object; it is a vestige of human life, the bearer of collective presence, carrying the energy of the countless journeys it once represented. Through a patient process of collection and transformation, she assembles these tiny fragments of space and time, allowing the humble ticket to become a sophisticated medium that transcends traditional pictorial categories.