The artist

Painter of the emotion

Some paintings stimulate our deepest emotions, authentic emotions that move us closer to our inner self. Paintings that allow the spectator to live intense emotions and clean the emotional sphere. There is a transposition of our reality to the reality of art, that allows that escape. This intimate process transforms our relationship with the artwork and identifies us with it.

Her work emerges from memory and intuition, often through forgotten materials—old books, sheet music, paper, pigments—which she transforms into visual poetry. Faces, sunflowers, candles, and trees serve as recurring motifs, each embodying fragments of the human condition. The faces gaze back at us like mirrors of the soul; the sunflowers, even in decay, turn steadfastly toward the light; the candles burn fragile yet tenacious, emblems of hope; the trees rise like living cathedrals, uniting us to the roots and the sky. Añes' paintings do not seek to offer answers, but rather to evoke resonances. They invite us to pause in front of the everyday and perceive the extraordinary within. Her vision converges with literary echoes of Juan Rulfo: presences immersed in silence, small flames that resist extinction, voices that endure beyond absence. Ultimately, Añes' paintings are not just images, but a mirror in which we can glimpse ourselves: our fragility, our resilience, and the profound beauty that endures within us.

Agnès Druenne was born in Belgium and studied art and tourism in Brussels.

In 1985, she left Belgium, backpacking, travelling and working in several places in the world, she has been tourguide in Mexico, Guatemala and Thailand.

She now lives in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, since 1992.

Since then, she has continued her artistic education with well known professors in Mexico, USA and Belgium.

Path and journey

Since 1989, Agnes Druenne has presented several individual exhibitions in Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA.

As an art teacher, Agnes has worked mostly with marginalized populations: the blind or visually impaired, mentally and physically disabled persons, orphaned children or from disadvantaged neighborhoods, young adolescents at risk of becoming delinquents, where she imparted art workshops exploring mediums such as painting, sculpture in stone and welding.

She specialized in the teaching a technique of drawing with the right side of the brain.

Nowadays, Agnes teaches drawing and watercolor painting courses, and practices the art of a silversmith; making jewelry from silver, copper and recycled materials. She also enjoys creating sculpture from welded metal.

Agnès founded the, SOMAAP Tamaulipas Delegation (Sociedad Mexicana de Autores en Artes Plasticas), an association of artists throughout the state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico.

Agnes is now exhibiting pieces in the GALERIA ALLER, FABRICA LA AURORA, in SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO.