The breath and the paper
The breath and the paper
The breath and the paper
Feather
Feather
Feather
Feather
The breath of the gesture
The breath of the gesture
Creation process
"Creation is an inner creative exploration that will take shape outside"
White today takes on the color of Silence. It is the result of a new awareness. It is at the heart of the peaceful Silence within Oneself that is the field of creation. It is confusing because it does not provide information in advance about what will arise, about the direction we will take. It is a real letting go and a connection to faith in one's soul and in Nature. Emptying allows me to enter into another way of functioning with the world. It is less thoughtful, much more fluid, surprising, light, joyful... White used to be supportive, like a vase where colors bloom. Today, it is the threshold of the door open to Silence, to pure and authentic inner Creation. He is his vector on the web. He is the freedom, the lasting joy, the resonance with my soul and the intention to transmit...
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January 2024
Back from an exhibition that invites me to take more freedom, I meet a new canvas with this intention. To my surprise, I feel that my gestures do not go in the direction of the liberated movements that I visualize. I feel that I cannot go there, they pose themselves with their own determination. Usually, inner joy is the sign that my being has entered into resonance with what is created. A little "disappointed" not to feel this this time, I leave my workshop letting the canvas dry for its first night. The next day, when I find her, I see her...
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Creation reveals the process of creation at the heart of the work. It reveals the inner work of the externalized artist on the canvas. Facing the white canvas, the release of the gesture is born and progresses little by little. On the large surface of the canvas, progression requires breath and perseverance. Because by touching part of the canvas, it is the whole that reacts in its demand for balance. Breathe in the present... Calm impatience... Keep faith in what will happen. Every breath is important. Every second is a building. The gestures are linked with their logic of composition, with a meaning that I do not need to know and that I transmit the best possible...
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November 2023
The Vincent Van Gogh Foundation Arles
This is a wonderful and very important invitation for me. I thank them!
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The invitation to live a week nourished by artists of the Abstract Expressionism movement, which I feel as one of the sources of my creation. The exhibition Action Geste Peinture by the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles resonates with the artist I am. It breaks down residual barriers and leads me to follow my freedom. I mean: be free to be and express without rule, without limit..." I feel carried by the experience of these women of another era.
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The invitation to accompany people in their creation is like a companionship that continues... The experience is delicious, obvious, harmonious and meaningful for me.
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The encounter with Vincent Van Gogh is fundamental. She arrives a year after having felt that it was time to change her behaviour: not to feed fears related to the future... The life of a painter brings these questions. Thanks to this awareness, I choose confidence, the present, faith in each step. Joy has replaced fear. Love in all things has revealed itself. By reading Vincent Van Gogh, I understand and share the road travelled and to continue...
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October 2023
"In the heart of the primary forest of Corrèze,
Green roof,
We advance under the foliage,
The trunks help us to progress.
Mosses on trees line the soil with roots and leaves.
Calm, vegetal silence...
The river flows and sings its delicious short
Water-green
Reassuring roots anchor each of our steps,
One after the other.
The energies recharge me, nourish me, revitalize me.
I am part of her...
A doe delicately crumples the herbs.
Peace settles for a long time.
Just time to feel again, and I’m in his heart and in my heart..."
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"The encounter with the heart of Nature nourishes me and makes my being vibrate. It is fruit, resource and creation... Transporting myself there by closing my eyes and opening the door of my heart, the paint tube slides with greater physical and vibratory lightness. I feel it in my arm like a delicate butterfly wing crease. I feel it inside me like an open space without weight. I no longer need an intermediate tool between the paint and the support. My hand needs to be more in touch with the color and in tune with the gesture. To make only one... It is an experience of comfort, flight and pure joy..."
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"I understand that intent is important. Previously I painted to explore, to discover myself - still today - now, with more confidence, wisdom, awareness of the encounter I have with Nature. An experience with the acceptance and confidence of not knowing in advance where it leads me...
It is the boundless love of Nature. It is an experience that transcends physical boundaries. It highlights the living, without distinction. It is respect, it is peace, it is creation of true joys...
The experience leads me to shift from the spectator attitude and to interact. I am no longer outside the experience with Nature, but with it inside. It is a sublime gift!
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Share my experience, for sharing and not recognition... I know today to distinguish the two. I am happy about it... "
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August 2023
"Today, I experience time that stops. The time in which I immerse myself is infinite... I travel at the speed of a star. Births... New cells... I paint while opening my wings... I feel the lightness of the features that are discovered..."
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"Nothing compels us to name the mystery revealed by the act of creation. It is shared by feeling, by the encounter that I urge towards him... Recognition and identification by words are not a goal. The encounter with the act of creation is at the heart of the work. It is a possible horizon to reach..."
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"The gesture like a wing.
Interiorize them, let them do, the invisible is transmitted in the energy brought to my gesture...
There is the visible gesture and the felt gesture.
The visible gesture is limited in space.
The gesture felt is borderless, multi-spaced, multi-stage. It is movement outside the frame, it is movement in the space time of the Present. He’s acting for tomorrow..."
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"The heart is the sound box, the matter and the filter through which the sounds are received. There is so much to discover!
It is both an exploration of the world under another look, the language of the heart; and the relationship that our being has with the world. It is a song that flows like the flow of a river,
the song of water, stars, light..."
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"Silence the past and the future... Listen to the present. The present is not ephemeral, it is fruitful. It opens a door to creation, a source... It is from this present that creation is possible and without limit... The time of the clock is disoriented. A second may feel like an hour or the opposite... Being seemingly motionless in the Instant, the journey is immense. Being there, I go much further...
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The temptation to project myself with the fear of the next second is not far behind. But the exercise repeated at each creation dispels it. I think that’s part of the exercise itself. To have confidence in the moment that is created without knowing where it leads us is both the feeling of a deep peace and the vertigo of new lands..."
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July 2023
"Everything is connected by Love: kindness, respect for beings in the heart of Nature, with it, the calm of the sky, the softness of light, the singing of breezes, insects, birds, herbs, the softness of feathers, flowers, hair in the wind, walk in connection with the elements, peace, joy, serenity, gentleness... I feel the strength of Love as an oasis, a key, an opening, a language, an infinite creative resource, a positive and inspiring energy. She calms and releases the fear of the unknown and reconnects me to the confidence of what I am, surrounded. By opening myself to Love, I feel the growing openness to new worlds..."
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September 2022
"The present time is a door to the treasures of my soul and Nature, to a new relationship with others, an understanding of what unites us."
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Aug 2022
"What matters is not the quantity of paint, the quantity of materials, it is that I am present and receptive with the heart to each touch."
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April 2022
"The process of creation is both a journey to meet my being and endless explorations with the creation that I wish to transmit and share. It’s a journey from heart to heart, from soul to soul..."
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September 2021
"The "how I should do", "how it should be", "transmit the dogma of the perfect", "of the rule", "of absolute permanence" inhabited me and left me behind.
The duration of a work according to me is not in the fixation of the painting as at its origin. A work lasts by the energy it sends back, by the spontaneity of the gesture and its resonances. It is the present, the moment and the timeless. Its energies cross and transcend the notion of linear time. Talking about aging of a work refers to linear time, talking about evolution makes the painting a living work that vibrates, evolves with the person who shares it.
Freeing myself from the aesthetic framework and its rules allows me to explore further. But by exploring aesthetic rules and dogmas, I understand more about who I am as an artist and where my art, a free art, is going.
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Jun-2021
"Even on the canvas, the gestures are drawn and give a glimpse. I follow them until I marry them. They get thinner and thinner, they don’t need a lot of paint. They leave the trace of their passages, the place to the canvas.
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The creative experience transports me into an intimate exploration, out of time for me and for others. It is an initiatory path where each work is a step on this infinite road.
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February 2021
"The dimension of the canvas leads me to commit myself more, body and soul. Where restraint was possible on smaller formats, it is no longer within my reach. When I paint, I feel that I am on the threshold of a new door, a new opening on myself, on the invisible world. To enter it requires courage. It is as if I were entering this world that is coming to my hand. I am white sailing, not yet ready to see it... "
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December 2020
"To paint my whole life. It is an intense joy that transcends me. I like to discover who I am, help others, travel the original lands, walk in joy. I am gradually coming to understand why I am here. Doubts are there and slow me down but I am moving at my own pace. It is the way of the heart that leads me to the truth. I want to help, to transmit the lightness and joy that I see.
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December 2020
"The creative process continues on two intimately linked planes: the plane of the understanding of the world through Nature, on the plane of the pictorial gesture and its abstraction. When I paint, I am surprised by what I discover. To be one with Nature to understand and learn from it.
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Painting on large canvas brings me great joy! My painting seems to want to bring the soil I need. The singular expression of my signs took place and coexisted with the white all around. Until then, the slender gestures were enough. Today, they are rooted in touches juxtaposed to form one. Caressing, nourishing earth, I feel the love of the earth. Her energies push us to grow, to rise. She teaches us, embraces us, whispers us, satiates us, satiny us. The earth and sky cycle circulates energies that weave a balance to take care of and free from all ties. When there is imbalance, everything is expressed for a return to harmony. Native, original forces that cross us and transport us. They guide us towards a knowledge of the interconnected world.
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November 2020
"To create for me is to dare to be, to listen to the world with authenticity, to bring my vision of the world, my way of being. The intention in my creation is the cradle of my inspiration; my gestures, wings that I learn to unfold.
The act of creating goes beyond the painter, it radiates around. It makes the people who receive it participate in creation.
Before painting, meditating, refocusing between earth and sky, thoughts fade, presence to oneself is felt, color appears visually, the hand chooses the instrument that will be its extension, the gesture spouts the breath of free and spontaneous intuition. It is no longer my hand that paints. To share with the heart and humility."
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2019-2020
"Caresses, inner riches unfold. Like a nucleus in the heart of the seed, my heart arises far from the outer excitement. Deceptive appearances suggest that it is time to hatch. He knows that life is written here, at his own pace.
Learn to paint with authenticity: listen to what I feel, the intention that resonates with my heart. Don’t line up in a box, follow the free path of my art.
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January 2019
"Let me be invited to explore Nature through what it is. Dare to approach it without knowing how, then let it guide me. After feeding the wood of paint as the sensation of a first soil, under the knife of the painter, it appears to me."
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November 2018
"Observing Nature with my feelings. Seeing as it wants to reveal itself, the invisible behind the images, discovering it, my perception changes, becomes more intuitive. It is a journey guided by an exploration of truth. The brush is inhabited and impregnated. It takes patience and humility to let go and trust.
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2018
'Learning from water to let go and welcome chance, trusting the natural elements in what emerges. Like poetry, let me marvel at unexpected encounters. Learn humility with Nature and compose with it. Accept my limits and my openings, accept the steps... "
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2018
"To be inhabited by what I see, by what moves me in Nature, to feel it in its movements, its internal structure, to inhabit it and then to let go of the gesture. Step away from the external image and express how I feel the visual, sensory and emotional experience.
2015