Born in Poland in 1976, Aneta Regel spent her formative years in Gdynia, before moving to England aged 25. She was raised in an austere appartment building, its architectural style not generally associated with creativity. But for Regel, it was the views from her home and the surrounding landscape to which she returns in her work.
'Our flat was on the seventh floor of a tower block situated in the middle of a forest. It was a surreal setting dominated by the strong contrast of the concrete and the natural, the green and the grey,' she recalls. 'The forest was a massive playground for me. Trees were climbed to the point of naming certain branches and calling them home. There was a strong sense of warmth, vegetal energy and intimacy.'
