Delphine Beguinot-Dollet

Leonardo da Vinci advised artists to keep their eyes fixed for a long time on the old walls to find familiar shapes. The multitude of forms which then revealed themselves excited the mind, stimulated the imagination and offered poetic support. If this advice from the master has long since become a fruitful method of creation, it is also for those who look and who accept to be in a state of receptivity, one of the most eloquent means of being a poet in their turn.

The outrages that time causes on the walls and in front of which we have all come to stop with pleasure and rapture, are the starting point of Delphine Beguinot-Dollet's work. In large formats that we have to face, like mirrors, she remakes as intuitively as possible through materials, textures and colors, this stained, moldy, dilapidated wall which nevertheless held her eye as surely as in front of a landscape remarkable.

With the support of the viewer, characters, landscapes emerge, stories unfold, secrets are revealed. For those who agree to venture into the space-time of the canvas, this whole universe, this whole microcosm becomes theirs. Like mirrors of the soul, opening onto the infinite territories that inhabit and inhabit each of us in our very personal way, the paintings of Delphine Beguinot-Dollet function as revelators, like dreams. Caught in contemplation, the viewer is plunged into a process of interpretation proceeding by association of evoked and suggested images. The canvases then act as a screen and they end in the mind of the viewer.

The inexhaustible poetic reserve which is given to those who know how to see opens to Dephine Beguinot-Dollet an infinite world of exploration, as to those children who know without knowing it, to be amazed in front of a vacant lot where everything remains to be invented and lived. .