Anne Desmet – Wood Engraving: A Personal Approach
Since Anne’s new book was published in November 2025 (full detail on Books page of this site), she’s been busy doing talks, print demonstrations and book signing events at venues including Bankside Gallery www.banksidegallery.com , the Royal Academy of Arts www.royalacademy.org.uk and Eames Fine Art www.eamesfineart.com where this photo was taken. She’ll be doing more book-related events over the next […]
Ravilious: Drawn to War
The artist features alongside Grayson Perry, Ai Weiwei, Alan Bennett and Sir Charles Saumarez-Smith, among others, in the drama-documentary feature film Ravilious: Drawn to War filmed in 2020 and released in cinemas in 2022. Desmet discusses the significance of the wood engravings within the wide-ranging work of English war artist Eric Ravilious (1903-42). For details […]
Lincoln’s Inn Commission
In 2022, the artist was commissioned to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Lincoln’s Inn Law Chambers in London by making six wood engravings of architectural features of the Inn that span the last 6 centuries. All the images are shown on the Commissions page of this website but here’s a short video of the printing […]
Royal Albert Hall Coin Commission
Royal Albert Hall Coin Commission: Anne Desmet won the competition to design a £5 commemorative coin for the Royal Mint to commemorate the 150th anniversary, on 29 March 2021, of the founding of London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. See: – https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/royal-albert-hall/– https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/royal-albert-hall/a-backstage-pass/ March 2021
Engraving Angels
Anne Desmet RA: Engraving Angels A short film documenting the progress of a new engraving inspired by the resilience of the human spirit, by Florence Nightingale and by architectural angels at the Royal Academy. July 2020
Scene through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving
Scene through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving – exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and touring The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) was founded in London in 1920 by leading artist-engravers of the day including Lucien Pissarro. Anne Desmet was appointed by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to curate this major survey exhibition to […]
The Engraver (Documentary)
Anne Desmet RA: The Engraver A documentary by L A Halstead about Anne Desmet’s work, focussing on the creation of her Wood Engraver’s Tower engraving (2020). This film features on The Royal Academy website. It was an Official Selection for both the Feel The Reel International Film Festival (2020) and the London international Motion Picture […]
A Greek Journey – Book
Anne Desmet – A Greek Journey: Book published by the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), July 2019. Anne Desmet held a book signing on Thursday 25 July 2019 to promote the launch of her newest book: ‘A Greek Journey’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This gem of a book follows Desmet’s bestselling […]
Why Museums Matter
Anne was invited to contribute the Holburne Museum’s exhibition about why museums matter. (February 7th to May 22nd 2019). Here is what she wrote in large letters laminated to the window of the museum restaurant.