Dentro Y Fuera
Sanne Maes, Mix Amylo and Tansy Roake, currently living in Órgiva, Granada, present ‘Dentro Fuera’. This exhibition of their contrasting artwork expresses what lies inside the mind, inside the earth, inside sleep, and what is outside of ourselves. Inside outside worlds, both imaginary and real.
Mix Amylo
Mix Amylo is an English artist, musician, writer and composer, based between Spain and the UK. Having always drawn and created as a child, she came back to it later, studying in London, Accademia d’Arte in Florence, Cyprus School of Art, and Metàfora in Barcelona. Her artwork has been shown in different countries, and since spending time in Las Alpujarras she has been a member of the art group ANA, taken part in many exhibitions, and organised a monthly Open House pop-up exhibition and music event in Órgiva, which became a space for other artists to show their work alongside hers.
Mix’s art, which has been described as ‘intrinsically feminine beautiful chaos’, is one of personal dreamscapes, with her surreal, highly detailed black and white works capturing a strange, original beauty, and exploring memory, dream, and parallel worlds. Recurring images such as circles and ladders, doorways and the female form, winding strands and trees, chessboards and mountains symbolise our mind’s journey, create a sense of busy solitude, of calm in the darkness. Surrealism, pointillism and eroticism all play a part in her otherworldly escape from reality.
Mix also recently formed an international creative tribe Artmixture Collective, which connects musicians, dancers, artists, poets, etc, from different countries. Artmixture combine their different skill sets to collaborate on projects, inspire and support each other, and crate wild and wonderful pieces of art.
Tansy Is An Artist
Tansy is an artist and musician living and working in Southern Spain. She has exhibited across the UK and, since 2019, has been furthering her practice in Órgiva where she is now running the studio gallery Nuestro Estudio. She has developed Nuestro Estudio into a community creativity in Órgiva, regularly holding community art events and running art classes for all abilities.
Her signature work is her Soundscapes where she paints the unique waveforms of significant sounds using materials and themes that convey the emotions connected with the sound. A concept that was started by painting the sound of her husband’s snore, has developed into paintings of a wide range of sounds including commissions for sounds that mean something to others – from meaningful songs and cherished voice messages to grandchildren’s laughter and the sound of waves on important beaches, each piece turns something you can only hear into something you can see and hold onto, evoking cherished memories. Beyond soundscapes, Tansy works with industrial materials, glitter and often uses dead insects to create bold, arresting artwork that is reminiscent of alien landscapes.
She also explores installation work, sculpture, digital hand drawing, and animation, working with other artists in the Artmixture Collective to broaden her practice through collaboration.
Tansy’s work is often commission based, with people bringing to her their personal meaningful sounds to be bought to life through art.
Sanne Maes
Sanne Maes (1974) is a contemporary visual artist based between the Netherlands and Spain. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and is an active member of several artist initiatives. Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces.
Her work explores the human relationship to both nature and the inner self, addressing themes of projection, merging, and transformation.
Working across media — video, sculpture, installation, and drawing — Sanne Maes creates layered compositions in which image, light, and form intertwine. In her series Lost Identity, she combines video portraits with Rorschach-inspired inkblots, creating hybrid images where identity dissolves, merges, or hides.
Her recent sculptural works incorporate animal skulls and reliefs of faces and ears with dripping, fluid shapes that could portray organic networks or traces of memory. Through these forms, she explores the boundaries between recognition and estrangement, the visible and the hidden.
Maes’ work unfolds as a poetic exploration of transformation — a space where identity becomes fluid and meaning remains in motion.
