Ann Veronica Janssens was born in Folkestone in 1956 and lives and works in Brussels.
After studying art history in the United Kingdom, Ann Veronica Janssens attended the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre (Brussels).
Since the 1980s, exploring the major notions of historical abstraction, she has developed an experimental body of work based on coloured irradiations that invade, inhabit and structure space through the use of light. Playing on both optical perceptions and the physical properties of light and colour, she produces works – sometimes monumental – that usually hover along the tenuous thread that separates the material from the immaterial, the visible from the invisible. The visitor’s experience is also central to these sculptures of light, as the multiplication of viewpoints encourages mobility and, by working with radiation, encourages immersion. The question of pictoriality, although approached in a subtle, almost filigree way, is prominent in the work of Ann Veronica Janssens. She often depicts the creative gesture, and even the loss of control that can occur in the creative process.