Anne Desmet

Anne Desmet specializes in wood engraving, linocut, lithography, digital prints and mixed-media printed collage. Her engravings are printed on her cast-iron Albion printing press, made in 1859 and still in perfect working order. Her subject matter is largely architectural yet buildings are subject to metamorphoses relating to effects of changing light, weather and time passing as well as fantastical kaleidoscopic distortions and reconfigurations. Desmet aims to present our urban environment in unexpected and surprising ways and to suggest the timeless solidity, human aspiration, humour, hubris and folly that architectural forms can convey, as well as their impermanence and vulnerability. 

Anne Desmet – Artist, Printmaker, Royal Academician

Gallery Images (from left) 

September (2025), Digital print on Somerset Satin paper, 17.7 x 18.7 cm 

Build your own Babel Tower (2022) , Linocuts & wood engravings on paper collaged on museum board with pencil drawing & watercolour 81 x 71 xm 

Wood Engraver’s Tower (2020), Wood engraving on Gampi Vellum paper 30 x 25 cm 

London Gardens - 3 decades of Change (2026) 4 wood engravings on Gampi Vellum paper, 12.5 xx 24.5 cm 

St Pancras Renaissance (2024) , Wood engraving on Gampi Vellum paper , 17.2 x 22 cm, Edition: 50 

First Light (Furness Needle) (2026) , Reduction wood engraving on Zerkall paper , 16.4 x 45 cm 

Anne Desmet, by Mireille Galinou.

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