Anika Manuel is a portrait and figurative painter from Cornwall. Anika graduated from the internationally renowned Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011 with a First Class honors degree in Fine Art. Her passion is for the flat, found image and its subsequent translation into painting. Having always had an interest in faces, Anika began copying from family photographs as a child, and to this day continues to capture realistic depictions of the human figure, although the subject has shifted towards the stylized and the celebrity. Working predominantly from found photographs and images in magazines, Anika re-presents these images within a new and exciting context.