Felix Anaut was born in Zaragoza, Spain. After working in Madrid for a design company, he went to study fine art at "L’Ecole de Montparnasse d'Art et Dessin", Paris, after which he returned to Madrid and set up his studio. He also spent time painting in Tangier and Ibiza. In 1984 he moved to England and then to Ireland where he was a co-director of a contemporary art gallery. In 1989 Anaut returned to his studio full-time, dividing time between Spain & Ireland. In 2001 he installed himself in South West France, and also continues painting sometime of the year in Donegal in N.W. Ireland.

Anaut has experimented in different mediums of painting, photo-montage, sculpture in terracotta and bronze and ceramics, and has undertaken several large scale installations in public spaces.

Today much of his work is concentrated in figurative painting, which is large format, 200 x 300 cms, often monochrome, with intense references to clasicism and mythology. The work (which he calls "Contemporary Clasicism) started as a demonstration against much of what is happening in the contemporary art world, where Anaut believes that many artists have lost their direction and reason, and the public has been totally marginalised! These overpowering and visually demanding images, show the artist’s interest in the human anatomy and human being - not as an individual, but in a more universal sense and meaning. With very exaggerated, disproportioned and mannered forms, Anaut reflects a very individual perspective on the world, which either draws on some great mysterious past or perhaps on some unknown world of the future, one is never quite sure?

Another aspect of Anaut’s painting encompasses a more lyrical, colourful and at times abstracted imagery, which the artist uses to find new departures. At present he is working on two particular series, the “Minotaur” and the “Tauromaquia”. Both reflect the artist’s passion for colour, movement, form and line. There is ambiguity throughout, in subject and composition. These works have a softness in colour, contrasted with strong line and form, images that are on the one hand sexless, but also sexual, images that are abstract, but at the same time figurative. They are works that are open to interpretation, without any pre-meditated concepts from the artist, but they are deliberate in their playfulness.

Anaut’s sculpture came about by the request of a sculpture gallery who asked him to produce pieces for them on the basis of his painting, wishing to see his two dimensional work in three dimensions. He took clay in his hands and started modelling, the result has been a series of small figurative pieces, since cast in bronze, plus a series of one off terracotta pieces. They have given him great pleasure, and the work is immediately recognisable as a direct reflection of his two dimensional imagery. He is now also using his sculpture as a reference for his painting. He continues modelling, also using wax and mixed media.

A further development with his exploration of terracota has been the collaboration with a potter to decorate more utility terrracotta objects, such as dishes, plates, etc. It is more an experiment of using ceramics to paint on, using enamels, as done by many artists before.

Anaut has exhibited widely throughout Europe, both in the private and public sector, he has participated in Biennales and has also organised and participated in several art events, such as installations, residencies, and happenings. Works of his are held in private collections throughtout the world, plus in several museums and institutions in Europe.