Barbara Em

“Often, I wonder where this strength comes from which allowed me to reveal my true artistic soul after having spent so many years as a corporate lawyer.

I'm sure this is the moment when I realized that not just me, but a lot of people have a hard time expressing their true feelings. Failure at school, at work, in love or other internal injuries are all things that trap us in psychological traps that we create for ourselves individually.

Through abstract painting, I discovered a way that allowed me to extricate myself from these traps and therefore exercise this much desired free expression. Each of my paintings embody an emotion coming from this reality buried in the depths of this emotional reserve too often silenced. I have developed a unique painting technique; gold, bronze, silver are colors which alone define the artistic soul of my work. The different techniques allowing to add different layers of materials add texture but also movement to my paintings.

Many are those who, once after acquiring one of my paintings, confess to discovering it again. This is my goal - that my work arouses a perpetual captivity and which can allow the collector to discover new details as he or she approaches it. "