Degann

DEGANN(1989) graduated from Academy for Beeldende Vorming in Amsterdam(2011). During her course, of study, she created a love for painting.

DEGANN also known as Anne de Groot(b. 1989) graduated in 2011 from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. My paintings and watercolours are vivid and aesthetically liable images that sometimes disguise an atrabilious element. Mental vulnerability and transience are central themes in the work. The multiple layers in the paintings create an elusive form. Like light, the works are simultaneously fl

eeting and present. This corresponds with my perception of paintings as breathing organisms. This is why they are not made as mere artistic statements, but originate from a sincerely felt inner necessity. I search for shapes that intrigue and convince me. In my portraits I do not paint faces, but heads, which for me creates a different sense of intimacy. I see the face as a structured spatial order covering the head, which houses the soul. I don’t work towards mimesis but towards a possible temporary essence of the portrayed, which is often introspective and removed. The transparency of the layers of paint creates discolorations on the surface. These aqueous spots that deform the shape of the heads approach that what is inside, the intimacy of the sitter’s spirit.

12/04/2026

Interlude I gathers inward — like a breath held or an emotion contained.

61x45cm
Chinese ink on paper
2025

08/03/2026

Ode

75x56cm
Chinese ink on paper
2025

27/02/2026

Chinese ink on paper
30 x 21 cm
2024

24/02/2026

Slow morning

67x49cm
Chinese ink on paper
2025

19/02/2026

studio notes.

13/02/2026

Bask

72x53cm
Chinese ink on paper
2025

10/02/2026

A year of making.

2025 brought long days in the studio, and a lot of work came out of it.

These images together — while the studio walls are already filling with new ideas.

31/12/2025

To me
To you
To us

Through
Over
Across

Still here

Let’s do, again

To this

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Ode
74 x 60 cm
Chinese ink on paper
2025
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18/12/2025

New work currently on view at .gallery as part of the group show HOLD ME until December 21st.

Meander
100x70cm, Chinese ink on paper, 2025

Every summer, I travel to Elp in Drenthe to teach at Buitenkunst. The forests there, at the height of summer, offer a quiet, immersive space where it is easy to lose oneself in thought and be fully present in the landscape. Bright summer light filters through the tree canopies, creating a delicate interplay of shadow and glow that invites reflection and lets inspiration flow effortlessly. In a world that moves ever faster, where attention is fragmented and moments of stillness are all but non-existent, this experience feels almost forgotten. This year, I sought to capture both this distinctive landscape and the feeling it evokes, which resulted in Meander, a reverie on presence and the delicate, almost-extinct experience of being fully immersed in nature.

Meander captures a space where getting lost is not disorienting but liberating. At the height of summer, light filters gently through the canopy; among layers of leaves and soft shadow, the forest receives you and invites you to drift—to wander without direction, yet find meaning or stillness. Time slows, moving at the pace of noticing.

The forest isn’t a backdrop; it receives you, allowing you to disappear into something greater than the self. It softens the boundary between self and world. Being here feels like both arrival and disappearance.

Meander evokes the delicate interplay of wandering, slowing down, and quiet surrender. The forest lives in its stillness, holding you, softening boundaries, and allowing presence and dissolution to coexist—reminding us that sometimes, to lose oneself is to find exactly where one belongs.

14/12/2025

In the studio last spring. In the background from left to right Holding On, Still There and Glint (still unfinished).

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Adres

Hoornstraat 11
Ghent
9000

Website

http://www.degann.com/

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