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Annie BOCEL
Engraveur artist, print printer, Typography punch engraver
Nelly GABLE Craft National Living Treasures former Student
Annie Bocel graduated from the Estienne school of engraving, made her apprenticeship with engraver Jean-Luc Seigneur, then taught intaglio in a Parisian workshop and learned the impression of embossing within the company Creanog. Following this wealth of experience, Annie Bocel opened a printmaking workshop in northern Finistère and simultaneously became an engraver of typographic punches at the Imprimerie Nationale printing office.
Annie Bocel’s prints are about nature, time, and imprint. Sensitive to the idea of what is lost and what disappears, she likes to see things revealed and hear their stories. Echoing this personal work and following a three-year transmission in the framework of the Maitre d’art program set up by INMA (National Institute of Art Craft), Annie Bocel contributes to higlighting the importance and conservation of typographic punches, a profession recently listed on the inventory of French intangible cultural heritage.
