Anih is a French painter who lives and works in Paris. After a career of more than a decade as an artistic director and gallery assistant, she now devotes herself fully to painting, a practice she has never abandoned since the age of twenty-seven.
Her work sits between lyrical abstraction and art informel. Working on the floor, she engages her whole body in the act of painting: oil, pastel, acrylic and pencil, on linen or paper. Guided by a musical imagination and a complete absence of premeditation, she allows colour and form to decide.
She continues to pursue her training at the École des Beaux-Arts, where she attends classes regularly. She has a body of around fifty works, large and small formats, organised in series.
Anih
« I work on the floor. The canvas lies at my feet, my body moves around it, the way you circle something you are trying to make your own. Before the first brushstroke, the space is prepared, the colours are mixed. Music creates that inner silence which propels my momentum. The blank canvas is not an equation to solve : it is an invitation. Colour and form do the speaking. Then I begin. What emerges is a lyrical abstraction in which spontaneity is not accident but discipline. A painting is finished when the gesture stops itself. I want my paintings to do good. Not politely ; deeply. Vibration, emotion, pleasure. And perhaps, somewhere in the canvas, something that only you will find. »
© 2026 — Paris, FR