Anne Plaisance - Visual artist and curator.
- Isobel Arden
- Jul 26
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 27
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Meet Anne Plaisance - A life's journey in social impact and art
Anne Plaisance is a French‑born, award‑winning visual artist, curator, and luxury real‑estate investor who balances colour palettes with property portfolios—with a sprinkle of social justice.
In the interview Mark created Anne's fantasy cultural year with a magic wand and time machine to hand. Expect surprises, anecdotes and conversation detours.
Based outside Boston, she’s exhibited in more than 100 exhibitions across the USA, Europe and Asia, with work featured in the Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Decoration.
Anne’s artistic journey is as vibrant as her canvases. From running an ad agency that fizzled in 2008 to winning scholarships and residencies in Vermont, Japan and Austria, she reinvented herself as an “artivist”: blending activism with acrylics. Her standout projects include Badrooms—a deeply moving exploration of child sexual abuse—and Wonder Women Now, a touring, multi‑sensory exhibition empowering female survivors of domestic violence, featured in Boston, London, Slovakia, and beyond.
Her personal life, too, has shaped her art. During the 2020 pandemic, she left an abusive relationship, using paintbrushes and colours to process trauma. A series inspired by her daughter’s journey through depression—Please Tell Her That I Love Her—emerged from that healing process.
Anne is also a licensed realtor with The Prosperity Group, cleverly leveraging property to support her creative practice. She seamlessly switches between discussing housing prices and colour theory—no small talent.
Her work lives in private collections from London to Kyoto, and she continues touring Wonder Women Now through 2026, with shows planned in Massachusetts, Slovakia and London.
Despite tackling heavy themes, Anne’s voice remains witty and human. She jokes that her “brush is her sword”—and yet, it’s also her stethoscope, healer, compass and microphone, all in one.
Interview summary
Mark and Anne imagined a dreamy scene of Anne sipping a coffee in Hudson’s Crow’s Nest café, reading Julia Cameron, a wild idea took flight. Mark pitched a globe-spanning art project: Anne would capture powerful “Wonder Women” through painting and photography—leading to a TED Talk, book, TV series, and a global lecture tour. Anne was all in and suggested starting in Japan.
From there, things got wonderfully whimsical. Anne accepted a music challenge—Renaissance tunes only for a year (hello, Thomas Tallis!)—and they mapped out imaginary travels: Maiko dances and sushi in Tokyo, tennis in Dubai, and catching up with friends in Warsaw, her former home of 18 years.
They wrapped it up with plans for a digital art gallery visit, opera, and a packed London arts crawl—plus music discoveries, film recs, and the ultimate thought experiment: lunch with Leonardo da Vinci, who, according to Anne, would be fascinated by AI.
Examples of Anne's work
The perfumes series statement:
This series of perfumes show the multiple manipulation techniques used by abusers, giving a visible form to something intangible that is hard to define and recognize, complex as the elaboration of a perfume, referring also to the physical and chemical trauma bond created with victims.
The sense of smell is closely linked to memory. The group of brain areas that are best known for processing emotions, learning, and memory also process odors.
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