In a short time Harold Ancart rose to international recognition. It started with a line of soot high on a wall, like the mark left by a fire. Ancart draws, paints, manipulates photographs of tropical paradises with passion and makes sculptures. But the focus of his artistry is drawing and painting. In this, exoticism, escapism and romanticism are a common thread, perhaps with a dark nuance. The dream seems to hold sway and yet it is undermined.
