Apolline Bökkerink draws the atmosphere out of a forest. Effervescent, dark and magical, her drawings recapture a feeling of being immersed in the landscape. Evocative of the larch forests where she grew up, each one is tinged with a sense of longing for the wild. Her process of casting textures is iterative: she works from memory, blowing shaved charcoal onto the page before rubbing out and drawing in impressions of bark, branches, snow and frost from the debris. Each drawing traces the disappearance of natural spaces from memory, and the collapse of a clear transition between real and remembered. Titled after the songs which inspired them, they transport us to our own encounters with the remote.

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 Apolline's work has been exhibited at Battersea and Hampstead AAF as well as several group shows across London. She is currently working on a new series of winter landscapes.