Ank Overweel 1943-2019
Drawings, in pencil, interspersed with watercolours. And always refined, very contently drawn or brushed with sometimes awfully thin brushes. Eindhoven-based artist Ank Overweel excelled with her refined handwriting.
Overweel got to know art through her father, a rather deserving amateur painter. At the MMS (secondary school for girls) she was taught drawing by Karel Vermeeren and at the Academy for Industrial Design (predecessor Design Academy) she was taught the trade by Kees Bol and Jan Gregoor, among others. After the academy, the young Overweel became a designer of curtain fabrics at textile printer Swinkels in Geldrop, and later became an autonomous visual artist. Important in this was his marriage in 1968 to Thijs Vossen, director of cultural centre and art loan De Krabbedans, among others.
Framed with passe-partout