Béatrice Agenin

The circus. The colours, the animals. The performers. Distant memories of sounds, celebrations, movement. I paint to rediscover the emotions of childhood. I paint for the freedom to recreate what has been lost. 

I come from the theatre. Words have accompanied me for a very long time. Suddenly, silence, on canvas or paper, and shapes appear, a story is told. It is a wordless adventure that seduces me to the point that I can no longer do without it. I indulge in the pleasure of combining blues, reds and ochres. An infinite variety of possibilities opens up to me, just as Monet's garden flowers did to him.  

I paint like a child. I am amazed by the mysterious beauty of painting, by its universal language. I paint so as not to grow up.