Anike Robinson

Creative Director and Lead Painter, Peaky Paints and Altar Arts by Anike

Washington, D.C.

My work is fueled by my childhood. At an early age my parents exposed me to larger than life ideas, people and movements like socialism, the Khmer Rough, School of the Americas, Apartheid. My mother groomed me to be a teacher and so I was. For 16 years I taught English and history by day and in my spare time I wrote, painted, carved, assembled, and repurposed objects to tell my story; a story that is a mix of my truth, dream, and myth.