Apolline Bökkerink draws the atmosphere out of a forest. Effervescent, dark and magical, her drawings recapture a feeling of being immersed in the landscape. Her monochrome snowscapes and earth-toned woods are evocative of the larch forests where she grew up, each one tinged with a sense of longing for these wilder, unkempt places. Her process of casting textures is iterative: she works from memory, blowing shaved charcoal dust and pigment onto a glued surface before rubbing out impressions of bark, branches, snow and dew from the fog. Her tree drawings trace the disappearance of a place and time from memory and the collapse of a clear transition between real and remembered, titled after the songs which inspired them to 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 series of textured works layering organic decay with the built environment.