2016 in the New York Subway.
Anne Turlais is far from her workshop and finds herself unable to paint.
Her son hands her his iPad and she starts to paint.
Artwave was born in the New York subway in 2016, with Anne Turlais.
Far from her tools and workshop, Anne found herself unable to create and discovered the iPad as a new medium for creation after her son handed it to her. Immediately mesmerized by this new tool enabling her to paint in the present moment, she saw the potential to share art with the greatest number.
This is how she envisioned the project ‘365 Days in the Present‘, and created one digital painting per day, for one year, sharing them daily by email to her amateurs. Encouraged by the positive responses that emerged from this new approach to art, Anne launched Artwave, with the aim of sharing beauty with the greatest number by means of screens.
From New York to Occitanie
Although Artwave’s mission is global, its heart lies in the green countryside of southern France, in Cabrerets (Occitanie).
The region of Cabrerets, Occitanie, is a never-ending source of inspiration for Anne Turlais: from France’s most renowned villages like St-Cirq Lapopie to pre-historical sites like Pech-Merle Cave, to abundant eco-systems of fauna and flora. She established her residence and workshop there in 2009, and the Galerie Artwave in 2016.