Anne Marie Finné (b. 1962) is a draftsman living and working in Brussels. She holds a degree in drawing from ENSAV – La Cambre (1986) and in printmaking from the Constantin Meunier Academy in Etterbeek (1991). Since 1990, she has taught drawing at the Académie de Molenbeek-St-Jean in Brussels.
Finné’s work investigates the many facets of drawing, exploring a variety of supports—paper, polyester, carbon—and tools, from graphite to carbon. In her work with carbon paper, she hones the line to the threshold of invisibility, pushing the paper to the edge of exhaustion. Transitioning from graphite to carbon, the simplicity of her tools opens the field to countless possibilities. Her practice emphasizes the line itself—the pencil’s trace, the gesture, and its engagement with the space of the sheet.
Currently, Finné is developing a series entitled “Vues Générales” (General Views). These works offer meticulously detailed landscapes, a labyrinth of rocks, streams, majestic trees, intermittently inhabited meadows, and small houses seemingly lost and absorbed by their surroundings. Combining painstakingly precise, almost reconstructive technique with a wholly original spatial arrangement, her landscapes evoke accumulations of visions and memories, blurring the boundary between observation and recollection.