During high school Anke apprenticed with a number of artists in the New York area and eventually won a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art. Throughout this period she pursued her studies of color theory and painting, continuing to find in these endeavors greater creative stimulus and inspiration than she had known in her photographic work.
Anke Schofield’s popular large-scale works, which feature fantastical dream-like images created through complex layering, have been attracting national attention.
Piquing the imagination, Anke’s whimsical imagery of animate and inanimate objects integrated in unexpected ways is a sophisticated combination of photography, collage, oil paint, acrylic paint, wax, and sometimes even tar. The surreal juxtaposition of images is reinforced by the eclectic use of media.
Anke finishes her works with a smooth, shiny veneer of epoxy resins, creating the dreamlike “trance,” by further separating image from reality and distancing the viewer from the textural physicality of the imagery.
