Vidia Ganase

Born in London to French-Trinidadian/Indian parents, I spent my childhood and adolescence in Trinidad and Africa and then my adult life in France. I did my higher education in visual arts at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. I live in Paris.

This mixed culture without borders is a source of inspiration which is translated plastically in the composition: delimitation, framing, border, horizon line, division, cutting, window.

I work from drawings made outdoors, sketches of nudes made in the studio, from my own photographic documents. I never create paintings facing nature. I list in my sketchbook the different types of foliage, flowers, trees, I create the color palette, the color chart. When a landscape catches my eye, it creates the desire to fix it on the canvas. Held either by a particular light that provokes emotion, or by the "earth-sky" division, or even a composition effect. I create the painting afterwards in the studio. This is when the work of elimination and synthesis begins - drawing less direct inspiration from nature, but relying on this conscious effort to capture the main idea or feeling through form and line. I mix, I blur the planes, I "construct" the landscape. I need this time.

I depict scenes of life indoors or outdoors, observed or imaginary. My intimate universe inspires me with calm, sometimes intriguing scenes. Figuration is a means of abstraction. The pictorial space is composed of flat areas of often bright colors and disordered and detailed elements. The decomposition of space applies to landscapes as well as to characters.