Anne-France Fulgence likes dramatic landscape compositions. These are eerie dream places – scenes suffused with serenity, fleeting moments of stillness when the world stops. Mysterious, poetic places between light and twilight, storm and cloud, sun and shade. The in-between.
Her passion for Nature shows in her work, never seeking to contain a scene’s mythic grandeur, but opening our eyes to its primordial beauty through the free-flowing mastery of her media in a style figurative, impressionistic, and representational, echoing classic hallmarks of Romanticism and the Sublime.
On paper and canvas, her paintings become a bridge between the real and the fantastical.
A-F was born in Morocco, studied in France, and migrated to Australia in 1989. She attributes her sense of drama and place to her French ancestry and what she admits is a “wild romanticism”.
“The Australia I paint is vivid, compelling, ever shifting. My paintings can be like a poetic tale, moody, evocative and atmospheric,” she explains.
A-F is already a collectable artist, having exhibited professionally for over 19 years, hosting over 20 solo exhibitions in New South Wales and Tasmania. Her work is held in Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Art Bank and a number of private collections.
She has been a finalist in numerous art prizes: the Norvill (Highly Commended and winner of the Packing Prize), the Paddington, the Mosman, the Calleen Art Award (Highly Commended), the Goulburn Art Award, Arts In The Valley (commended), Waverley Art Prize(highly commended), The Fisher Ghost Award, the Wingecarribee Art Prize (Winner).
This year A-F is a finalist Commended at the KAAF art Prize, Sydney, The Waverley art prize 9 x 5 , The Lethbridge small scale award , Highly Commended at the Wingecarrabee Landscape art prize, Bowral.
In 2024, A-F won the Salon of KValley artist Art Prize, and an artist residency in Orange (the Corner Store Gallery) and was a finalist in: the Waverley 9x5, Waverley School of Art, Bondi, the Calleen Art Awards, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, the Regional Landscape Art Prize, the Corner Store Gallery, Orange, the Wingecarribee Art Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, the Palette Art Prize, Gallery Alchemy, Milton, and the Harden, landscapes art prize, Murrumburrah.