Amandyne Steropês

"Each work is part of the search for a sensual and sensory expression. My technique, at the same time evasive and poetic, is abandoned in the course of the drawing, for experimenting with material accidents in an approach that consists of trusting the elements.

The result, a half-calculated surprise, comes to reinvent a dream, always somewhere between the unheard of and the desired, the concrete and the improbable.

Above all, I wish that my paintings vibrate with my passion for bodies, their mysteries, and the indomitable life that sets them in motion..."

Portrait:

I walk, amused tightrope walker, on the taut rope of my dreams, between reality and the image of the one who, as a child, laughed while looking at the sky.

I chose a path made of vertigo... soldier in this too short life, de-dedicated and voluntary, I have the freedom of madmen and the frank smile of a mad artist.

Deeply in love with life, my whole approach is a cry, a song of signs and colours, and I sometimes grasp the living fire of the world, between experience and surprise.

There are abysses of contradictions between my life as a policeman and the dance of my brushes. And it is this immense thread stretched between my two realities that vibrates and resounds so strongly in each of my works...

I offer here the fruit of my travels, interior and vagabond, as one asks a question... is there a soul, common to each of the manifestations of the world?

My work tries to recover the sensation of living all those rare and intimate moments, during which the "Divine" is incarnated in us.

And I am looking for the spark that expresses reality, in a burst of laughter, a caress, a shiver.

After a military career (and yes!), I aspire to find myself totally in the creative act, the only one that makes me feel alive?"

- Amandyne Steropês