July Ancel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Winning prestigious prizes led her to spend time in China, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey. She has been awarded a scholarship from Casa Velazquez, the Antoine Marin Prize and the Yishu Prize8. These journeys have helped to assert her identity as a painter and shaped her relationship to painting. Her "nomadic painting" is ambiguous and plural, infused by myths and symbols. She approaches painting as a ritual space, her compositions are based on gestural intuitions, everyday observations and combinations of thought. Her work can be found in major private collections in China, France and South America.