LUMIERE, MATIERE ET POESIE(in English below)
J’ai commencé à peindre lorsque je n'arrivais plus à écrire. Mais mon amour pour les mots a influencé ma manière de peindre. La peinture est mon nouveau langage. Les mots se sont transformés en lignes, couleurs et formes. En travaillant avec différents matériaux allant du sable au cendre, de la bitume aux pigments, des pastels à l’huile au collage, je commence à écrire. Tout comme dans l’écriture, j’essaie de décomposer la complexité pour trouver la simplicité de manière à raconter mon histoire en un minimum de coups de pinceau. En recherchant cette expression authentique, je gratte, j’essuie et j’arrache littéralement la surface de la toile, tout comme le ferait un écrivain qui efface les clichés et les inexactitudes afin de trouver une authenticité et sa propre expression.
"We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple, calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure clear light, when we were pure ourselves." Iris Murdoch
I started to paint when I couldn’t find the words to write anymore. But my training in writing short stories influenced my painting process.
Painting is my new language. Words have become lines, color and form. In seeking that authentic expression, I often literally scratch, wipe, and tear away at the surface of the canvas, like a writer deleting clichés and inexactitudes in order to find an exact experience and its expression.
I find my themes through sketches of landscapes and more recently from poetry. Through drawing, I look for rhythm, material, and form. When faced with the blank canvas, I always begin with the line or with writing as a way of beginning the story.
I then work with a variety of materials ranging from sand and ash to pigments, from oil pastels to collage, and from ink to acrylic paint.
I am currently working through the theme "Memory of Sun" inspired by Anna Akhmatova's poem and her poetry in general. I have been intensively working with asphalt, ink, collage and ash. I use the layers and depth of textures to then scratch away lines to find the traces of memory.
J’ai commencé à peindre lorsque je n'arrivais plus à écrire. Mais mon amour pour les mots a influencé ma manière de peindre. La peinture est mon nouveau langage. Les mots se sont transformés en lignes, couleurs et formes. En travaillant avec différents matériaux allant du sable au cendre, de la bitume aux pigments, des pastels à l’huile au collage, je commence à écrire. Tout comme dans l’écriture, j’essaie de décomposer la complexité pour trouver la simplicité de manière à raconter mon histoire en un minimum de coups de pinceau. En recherchant cette expression authentique, je gratte, j’essuie et j’arrache littéralement la surface de la toile, tout comme le ferait un écrivain qui efface les clichés et les inexactitudes afin de trouver une authenticité et sa propre expression.
"We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple, calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure clear light, when we were pure ourselves." Iris Murdoch
I started to paint when I couldn’t find the words to write anymore. But my training in writing short stories influenced my painting process.
Painting is my new language. Words have become lines, color and form. In seeking that authentic expression, I often literally scratch, wipe, and tear away at the surface of the canvas, like a writer deleting clichés and inexactitudes in order to find an exact experience and its expression.
I find my themes through sketches of landscapes and more recently from poetry. Through drawing, I look for rhythm, material, and form. When faced with the blank canvas, I always begin with the line or with writing as a way of beginning the story.
I then work with a variety of materials ranging from sand and ash to pigments, from oil pastels to collage, and from ink to acrylic paint.
I am currently working through the theme "Memory of Sun" inspired by Anna Akhmatova's poem and her poetry in general. I have been intensively working with asphalt, ink, collage and ash. I use the layers and depth of textures to then scratch away lines to find the traces of memory.
