Ingrid Berg

Since my voluntary exile from France 15 years ago, I have lived in Quebec. I am a little nostalgic for what I call my water of Total Love; I miss the ocean, it's visceral, and this lack sometimes plunges me into waves of loneliness. Moreover, water is essential in the expression of my art as in the expression of my life, of Life. And then, I am surely what one could designate a "marveled woman".

The daily spectacle of life fascinates me, inspires me. In addition, I believe that my journey as a "healer" (massage therapist, yoga teacher ...), since my childhood, promotes the development of my capacity not only to wonder, but also to decode bodies. I am constantly trying to find out what the bodies are hiding, to see behind them. With the hope of transcending the limited conditions, to make them take more subtle forms ... and perhaps also to go beyond the known possibilities of my own nature ... How to call that? Brain mechanics at the service of thought? Thinking at the service of the idea? Certainly...

Seeking to see behind forms guides me, it helps me make choices to express myself artistically, and I think abstraction appeals to me a lot for this reason: we try to see beyond appearances, for example by favoring luminosity rather than coating, by moving towards the “incorporeal”, to touch something other than the surface. It is surely partly for this reason that the color gold is often invited in my paintings: it brings luminosity and depth, nobility; something that relates to the search for the sacred.

I like the idea of a “seed thought” to talk about my artistic process, a thought that provokes a reflection where intuition has its place and constantly makes my creativity evolve, without waiting, and in all humility.

I want my work, like my life, to be part of an "ethics of awakening", of an inner evolution and a blossoming of the soul ... My artistic approach is therefore undoubtedly part of a quest for knowledge.