Anick Fernandez | Roots
Anick Fernandez
Roots
FOCUS GALLERY
March 6 - 28, 2026
Opening Reception: March 6, 5-7pm
“Realize that everything connects to everything else”
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is in the roots.
I realized this the day I saw a new tree growing from the roots of an old stump a few years ago. What once was a beautiful tree was dead, but the roots were very much alive! My first thought was that all the roots were connected underground, then I thought about the similarities between plants and human beings. In both cases a new life grows in the dark, protected and out of sight.
Roots belong to forests and to family trees. Like stitches they hold everything together. They form a giant, life carrying web underground that connects all the trees. It is the same for people, nobody stands alone, we’re all connected and interdependent. We all share a universal common ancestor and we all belong to one huge root system that connects us all. The health of one impacts the whole.
The shape of a family tree is the exact shape of a root system. It’s also the shape of other life carrying systems like the rivers whose affluents expand in different directions and our own circulatory system.
Roots have the amazing ability to adapt to the obstacles they find and they never stop growing. If the container is too small they will grow out of it.
They connect territories and continents. They travel with us wherever we go, so I don’t think we can be truly uprooted.
Just like plants do, we can always grow new roots!
ANICK FERNANDEZ
Anick Fernandez is a Canadian visual artist and printmaker born in Mexico City. She has lived in Mexico, Canada and Spain and is currently based in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Despite being trained as an architect, Anick’s passion lies in art, which she pursued first as a painter and sculptor. However, after attending a monotype workshop at l’Atelier de l’Ile in Val-David, Quebec, she turned to printmaking.
While living in Spain, Anick learned etching and aquatint at the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid and at the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors.
Concerned about the toxicity of the products used in the process, she began experimenting with collagraphy, a non-toxic printmaking technique.
From 2013 to 2019 she ran a studio where she taught collagraphy and combined her practice with it.
Her work has been recognized with several awards including First Prize Mini Print International in Cantabria, Spain. She has participated in exhibitions in Spain, France, Poland, Portugal, Canada and Mexico.
Her work is included in the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center in Santander, Spain; the Yukon Permanent Art Collection and the Hyatt Hotel in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Past Exhibitions
