Sophie Dem

I have always needed during my life to create, write, paint, decorate ... everything that surrounds me inspires me!

I don't consider myself to be an anatomist sculptor others do much better. I am more driven by creation and emotion. The technique can be learned but it can also be discovered and this quest pleases me. Try, tempt, imagine, fail, discover and then find the way for the material: his little secret.

Born in 1972. Always sensitive to creation, first of all words and writing, then painting, the creation of objects. It is ultimately the clay that will awaken my senses the most. The evolution of sculpture goes through different stages where each brings its expression. Texture, hands in the material, paint, pigments, patina, varnish.

A meeting also, courses with a sculptor letting inspiration and creation be born by accompanying the technique in this direction. I work with different clays: chamotte, paper, self-hardening according to the mood of the moment. My approach is in a manual and visual sense. Often I start sculpting without knowing where I'm going to go and that's what I like; the idea and the perception evolve. And then a small magic moment arrives, I feel by the hands and I see what takes shape. I will say that there is a lot of privacy and self in art and it is difficult to let go of it. However, when a person shares this feeling and feels an emotion it is ineffable happiness.

My artist name is Sophie dem 'and I sign my sculptures with an So.