SCULPTOR
ANNA-MAIJA REÉS

INTRODUCTION | BIOGRAPHY

Artist´s Statement

My attraction of working in three dimensions has been there, since I can remember.

In my childhood, I took everything I could get in to my hands to construct, to build, to sculpt. My interest to arts goes together with this.

In my youth, I was fortunate to go to places like the National Gallery and Tate Gallery in London, and view the collections of the British Museum. I travelled to Venice and Florence, and St. Petersburg, exploring the exiting and wonderful art treasures and architectural works they could offer.

I visited the historical Cnossos on Creta and all this made a strong impression on me, before I had started my studies to be an architect at the Technical University in Lund, Sweden.

After finishing my studies, I have been working as an architect in Norway, Spain and Germany.

In Norway I came across the author, Shakti Gawain, a pioneer of the field of personal development. She believes that the key in learning is to listen to your intuition, and to act on it at all times, even at the risk of going against old patterns, expectations and belief systems.

Her ideas were perhaps the initiating force, which led to my exploration into more about my creative needs even at other fields of expression.

My time in Lübeck, in the North of Germany, turned out to be crucial for me as an artist. I learned more about ceramics in an art school and I got the possibility and time to use my creativity and imagination to sculpt.

My tutor and artist Uschi Cravillion-Werner encouraged me to join an exhibition, and it was then I really started my more public carrier as a sculptor.

Since then, Harriet Backer, a great Norwegian mosaic artist, has supported and inspired me to carry on with my work as a sculptor.

Anna–Maija Reés

Curriculum Vitae

Portrait