Dalila Hachelaf

Following what my eye sees, wants to see or imagines seeing, with the images that parade and are created in my head as I read, I often feel like, as a painter, to transcribe these first languages that are images, with my fingers stretched out in these oily pastels, so unloved and yet so marvelous! The image, a kind of inner pressure valve, a revealer of our state of mind and our desires.

The forms given to visions taking shape in a more or less precise way according to the movements, the caresses of the lines, the colors, my pastels giving life in complete freedom without the constraint of what is called the ''real'', letting the image come to me.

My greatest pleasures since my childhood are still with my 70 years the journeys in the marvelous worlds of tales, legends, music and mythologies of the East.

My pictorial creations will be made mainly on primed cardboard supports, most often canvas 50x60 format but also on tube-totems which offer always different visions when we dance around.