ANNA SCHÖLCH
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After my family moved from Germany to Texas when I was fourteen, I started noticing trees and people because both were suddenly scarce in my life. At first, I only inked German houses and trees because I wanted people who pretended I did not exist to see me—where I was from and what I was missing. During college, I built many friendships because I did not want anybody to feel how I felt. Since then, I have been drawn to the lives of invisible people. To portray these silent legends with my pastel pieces, I create thick-layered surfaces that burst with their inner charm and that feature symbols and elements of a person’s past, the years between life and death and afterlife. I like building a space where there is circular movement as is in familial generations, a space where death is inviting, sadness is hopeful, and troubles become inessential and forgiven, like the gray mountains of pastel residue on the ground.
I want to be like a tree; connect the roots of hidden people and bring them to light so that humans, just like trees, become a collective of crowns, able to survive and plant new seeds that ignite beauty for the future. 

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"He Who Burns"

April 2022
Pastel on paper
22.5x17in

"Silence Wilts the Tongue"

January 2022
Pastel on paper
​10x7.5in
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"Blank Evenings"

May 2021
Pastel on paper
24x13.5in

"Ever So Dutiful Mother"

February 2021
Pastel on paper
​24.5x18in
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"When the Cookie Crumbles"

January 20212
Pastel on paper
10x7in

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"Lumbering to the Lonely Tree"

April 2021
Pastel on paper
10.5x8in

"Rocks and Dinosaurs"

February 2021
Pastel on paper
12x12in

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"Bonnie & Clyde"

February 2021
Pastel on paper
42x28in

"A Mother's Newfound Freedom"

October 2020
Pastel on paper
28x20in

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"Resurrection"

April 2020
Pastel on paper
28x20in


"The Game Master"

July 2020
Pastel on paper
18x17in

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"The Empress"

February 2020
Pastel on paper
17x23in

"Jane Eyre No. 1"

April 2020
Pastel on paper
3x2in

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"Jane Eyre No. 2"

April 2020
Pastel on paper
​3x2in
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"Jane Eyre No.3"

April 2020
Pastel on paper
​3x2in
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"Jane Eyre No. 4"

April 2020
Pastel on paper
​3x2in
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"The Dreamer"

December 2019
Pastel on paper
20x28in
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"Boats on Water"

May 2017
Pastel on paper
​40x30in
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