Florence Chevaux

Florence Chevaux: Painting as an outbreak of imagination

There is mineral and floral in the work of Florence Chevaux. Each canvas she creates in ink and acrylic paint is like a marble slab whose veining reveals delicate flowers that seem to spring from color and material. In a painting that is alternately fluid and thick, transparent and opaque, the crystalline colors combine the freshness of green, blue, pink with the sobriety of gray, like vegetation growing under the surface of the stone.

Nature thus seems to be at the heart of the practice of this artist who has kept from a first career spent in watchmaking the meticulousness with which she works the pigments, but also with which the forms appear as much as they dissolve on the White background. And if his previous job required mastery and precision, painting allows him to experiment with the randomness of these patterns that arise from the meeting of paint and ink. It is then up to us to find figures there, as the dreamer does when looking at the clouds, or simply to appreciate the harmony of the forms obtained.

In this, the painting of Florence Chevaux is a painting of the living. Full of grace and freedom, his compositions take us to the heart of matter, that of the geological and the vegetal, but also that of the pictorial, and plunges us into a dreamlike universe where it is good to get lost. Flower necklaces, explosions of spices, strange creatures from the abyss, … all interpretations are possible in these works where Florence Chevaux likes to bring painting to life.