Ana Montiel
03 // Ana Montiel was born in Logroño, Spain, and studied Fine Art at Barcelona University. After living in Barcelona for 11 years, Ana relocated to London, where she now works as a visual artist and designer. Ana is inspired by the botanical and animal worlds, geometry, astronomy, colours and light, the occult and life in general. Her clients have included Anthropologie, Jo Malone and Nina Ricci. Her wallpaper design Topo Azul was selected as a ‘key product to watch’ in the New York Times. Ana’s ambition for the future is to be involved in interesting projects of all kinds that keep her learning, experimenting and meeting inspiring people. She would love to work on some landscaping design, adding greenery to the rooftops of city buildings.
Design Heroes: Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, Sonia Delaunay
Markers 2
Colourful infill patterns are used inside triangles, which appear informal and undulating rather than rigid. Created using markers in a half hand-drawn, half digital design.
Visual Mantras Book – Ravi
Watercolour diamonds are full of colour of texture. The ‘Visual Mantras’ pieces are part of a personal project that keeps evolving into different shapes and sizes but always under the same premise: rhythm and repetition as meditation.
Visual Mantras Book – AM
Here Ana again explores repetitive drawing as a meditation. She has developed a series of absorbing and richly coloured geometries that ‘bring up the cyclical rhythm of life’.
Visual Mantras Book – Warm
Mountains Washed-out watercolours give what would otherwise be a hard geometric arrangement a softness as colours bleed and blend.
Visual Mantras Book – We Are Made of Stars
Lines joined by points make up a series of abstract shapes reminiscent of constellations.
Visual Mantras Book – Infinite
A simple figure-of-eight loop is arranged in varying sizes using a palette of cool, restful colours.
All work © Ana Montiel