Evelyne Mary

Evelyne Mary creates images using a vocabulary of forms that she orders in beautiful minimalist compositions where intense colors make the white of the page vibrate: there is a play between the figures and the background, the full and the void, the masses and the lines. “Create images from a vocabulary of engraved shapes. In lino. Order in minimalist compositions. Play with figures and the background, the full and the empty, the masses and the lines, the flats and the pattern. Look for the accident. Sometimes a whole day. Use it. Often summon the elements. Rocks, lava, clouds, water, mountains, wind ... Men or animals, moving, moving, or turned towards a design that we do not always guess. Leave white, space, a place for the imagination of the beholder. »Engraving is her favorite technique and she uses all its potential: linocut, drypoint, stamp… The elements of the landscape are represented by solid patterns while the silhouettes emerge through the grace of a line, in the white paper. Trained in applied arts at Olivier de Serres then in illustration at the Estienne School, she lives in the south of Ardèche. She has illustrated several children's books, and creates artist books for adults.