Ans Bakker is a visual glass artist who explores the fragility of landscape and memory through a quiet, attentive formal language. Her work breathes a continuous dialogue between sea, light, and land, in which glass acts as a vessel for silence and stillness.

Born by Dutch waters and often sojourning in Zeeland and France, she is guided by coastlines, tides, and estuaries: border areas where water and land constantly reshape each other.

Since 2003, she has chosen glass as her primary medium because it makes tangible the tension between holding on and letting go, between form and erosion, between protection and transience.
In her objects and installations, she regularly incorporates natural elements such as sand, earth, and (mussel) shells; this results in layered, sometimes delicate volumes reminiscent of a nest, dike, or shell, forms in which something is preserved and enveloped.

This same understated monumentality also characterizes her light objects and glass landscapes, in which a soft, diffused light invites the viewer to find stillness and to cherish what is fragile.