封城期间呆在家里，让我有机会重新关注我生活的地方——西科克郡的一处乡村。这里的美景，特别是周边生长的植物，它们的自然形式和肌理再一次给了我灵感。
Being confined at home during the lockdown, I was given the time to refocus on the beauty of where I live – a rural area in West Cork, Ireland – and became, once again, inspired to explore natural forms and textures found in plant life in my immediate surroundings and neighbourhood.
《增强》手工编织、缝纫 多种羊毛和纱线 80x60cm 2020
Enhanced, Hand-weaving and hand-stitching, various wools and yarns, 80x60cm, 2020
Healing II, Hand-weaving and hand-stitching, various wools and yarns, 100 x 80 cm and 40 x 47 cm, 2020
Nature’s carpet, Hand-weaving and hand-stitching, various wools and yarns, 70 cm diameter, 2020
这组作品中，苔藓和地衣等微小的生物和植物激发了我的创意，我试图寻找演绎它们的色彩和肌理的方式，我学习编织法国结，并通过视频学会了圆形编织。
我想让作品看起来很生态，把平常看不到或忽视的美和多样的灌木丛表现出来，运用各种粗细、触感不同的纺线和棉线，将色调统一为绿色。
我喜欢手工缝纫和编织，那种慢节奏和双手重复的动作让我获得沉思，沉浸在自己的小小世界和思绪之中，远离周遭的纷繁复杂。
这组作品希望回归本源，去欣赏和拥抱生活中细小的事物，去欣赏自然并从她的韧性和再生能力中得到启发。
In this series of work, tiny organisms and plants like moss and lichens became an inspiration and while looking for a way to explore and interpret their colours and textures, I learned how to stitch French knots and taught myself circular weaving by watching instruction videos.
I aim to create pieces that appear organic, uncovering the often un-seen or overlooked beauty and diversity in the undergrowth by using a variety of yarns and threads in different thicknesses and tactility, kept to a limited palette of mainly greens.
I like to hand-stitch or hand-weave. The slow pace and the repetitive movement of my hands become quite meditative and contemplative and often makes me withdraw in my own little world and thoughts, away from all the suffering that is surrounding us at the moment.
This work is all about going back-to-basics, to appreciate and embrace the small things in life, to appreciate nature and be inspired by her resilience and ability to regenerate.
安·梅赫林克曾长期从事管理工作，这份传统的职业让她不得不把艺术创作放到一边。
直到2005年，安从比利时搬到了爱尔兰，她渐渐意识到深藏在内心、被压抑的艺术热情，渴望重拾并实现儿时的梦想——成为一名艺术家。2009年她决定不再等待“恰当时机”的来临，开始踏上她的艺术之旅。她曾在爱尔兰麦克鲁姆的麦克埃根学院学习艺术、手工艺和设计课程，之后在科克的圣约翰学院接受专业的绘画课程训练，2015年从科克克劳福德艺术与设计学院的纺织品应用艺术专业毕业。2017年开始，她将所有精力投入到艺术创作中，成为了一名独立艺术家。
Coming from a traditional background where creative impulses were something to be pursued ‘on the side’, Ann spent decades working as an administrator.
It wasn’t until 2005, when she moved from Belgium to Ireland, that she slowly began to realise how deep she had repressed her genuine passions and how she longed to recapture and fulfil that childhood dream of becoming an artist. In 2009 she decided to stop waiting for the ‘right time’ and set off on her creative journey, studying an Arts, Crafts and Design course at McEgan College in Macroom, followed by a Professional Painting course at St. John’s College in Cork, to finally graduate in 2015 in Applied Arts – Textiles at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork.
Since 2017 she has been working full-time as a self-employed artist.