She may be small in stature. Yet her paintings are anything but. In fact give Ange Mullen-Bryan a space - no matter how big - and she will fill it with confident, bold, large strokes. Her oil paintings depicting Swedish woods, forests and landscapes, display something of the inner world of this outwardly shy, modest artist. She admits she is not confident or bold as the work she produces and tends to shy away from the limelight. Her oil canvases are self-assured, dynamic and by no means shrinking violets - more like giant sunflowers searching for the light. They are striking, deserving recognition.
Stroud Life Article by Tracy Spiers Jan 2010
Whilst beguiling you, they are unsettling too, they pull you in with delicious colours and flick you back out with an abrasiveness. I invite an escape into a kind of utopia, where you can smell freedom and pine in the air, a place I think I know. Yet I nod to the nagging impossibility of it and remind you that good fairy tales have a lesson within them. I tell darker tales and dress them up in the fabric, the costume, of colour and light.
Ange Mullen-Bryan