Apolline Bökkerink draws the atmosphere out of a forest. Effervescent, dark and magical, her tree drawings capture 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 dust onto the page before rubbing out and drawing in impressions of bark, branches, and snow from the debris. Each drawing traces the disappearance of wild places from the city, and the collapse of a clear transition between nostalgia and memory. Titled after to the songs they represent, she transports 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 jewellery collection which re-stages hi-vis reflectors as precious stones set in silver (@glssnt ).