Anne Julie Desmet RA (born 14 June 1964) is a British artist who specialises in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed media collages.
[2] Desmet was born with congenital hip dysplasia, resulting in an approximate total of five years hospitalisation during childhood, recovering from orthopaedic surgeries.
Other publications include: Anne Desmet RA: Towards the Light (Long and Ryle Gallery, 2015), Anne Desmet RA: Time Sequences (Long and Ryle Gallery, 2015), Anne Desmet: Olympic Metamorphoses (The Hart Gallery, 2011), Anne Desmet: Urban Evolution (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008), Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations – catalogue raisonné (Ashmolean Museum, 1998); Private Views: Artists working today (Serpent’s Tail, 2004); Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990 (Barrie & Jenkins, 1994); The Times, RA Magazine, Art Review, Art Monthly, Burlington, The Guardian and The New York Times.
She uses the traditional printmaking techniques of wood engraving and lino-cutting but draws on a variety of materials to create distinctive layered collages.
Her work ranges from small scale, detailed examinations to sweeping, often fantastical, panoramas viewed from a bird’s eye perspective.