Apolline Bökkerink creates drawings out of charcoal dust. Effervescent and magical, they recapture a feeling of being immersed in the landscape. Her recent monochrome snowscapes are evocative of the larch forests of the Berry and French Alps where she spent most of her childhood when not in London, tinged with a sense of longing and nostalgia for these wilder, unkempt places. Hers is an incredibly iterative process of casting textures: she blows shaved charcoal dust and swathes of pigment onto paper before rubbing out impressions of bark, branches, and footprints from the mass. Her abstract material projections act as a sort of dry painting, titled after the songs which inspired them to transport us to our own encounters with the atmospheric and remote. 

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 Apolline's work has been exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair as well as several group shows across London. She is currently working on a series which translates music into drawings.