Sylvie Escaravage

Born in 1962 from a military father and an artist mother, it was very young that she acquired a special look at what surrounds her. From her childhood in Guyana she has kept bright and fragrant colors: the green of the Amazon and the red of laterite. Studies in international trade and later in Chinese will lead her to a magical country: China, another passion that she will transcribe on canvas. In 2006, the artist Brigitte Dornier asked her to exhibit with her her “Chinese” paintings. There followed a number of pivotal years rich in artistic encounters and workshops. The Beaux-Arts d'Avignon, the Académie des Arts ... It was during this time that she learned, experimented, but remained essentially figurative. The meeting with the Pastellists of France will make him live his new passion for pastel with portrait and animal painting. In 2010, Marianne Bozom-Cholet, abstract painter, who has now disappeared, asked her to participate in an exhibition with her association "Abstract Women". Total discovery and difficult transition between the desire for a taught academism and a new artistic approach that is more gestural and freer. A word from the artist: “With acrylic, I discovered another world. My work generally very in matter takes me towards horizons that I do not suspect. I travel to the heart of my unconscious and my imagination. Hollows, bumps, stains, evocative of my moods, I let myself be surprised. This imaginary world that I have in me never ceases to amaze me. The immaculate white canvas is the royal road to… I never know in advance… I wait to see… and little by little the shapes, the colors… expressions of my feelings of the moment emerge. I use all kinds of materials, bleach, coffee, sand, metalwork paint, combs, fingers, whatever, only the expression counts. All the trips I have made have imbued me with their scents. There is always my soul in my paintings. I am looking for emotion and if I can be in the sharing then I feel happy. My painting tastes are eclectic to say the least, but my first artistic loves are without question Franz Marc and his Blue Horses, Gauguin and his colorful magic. Closer to us, I would add Ken Paine for his masterful portraits in pastels, Alex Powers and his contemporary watercolor, Bill Buchman's nudes. I would add to this non-exhaustive list Adrew Wyeth who made me take another look at this America that I love so much. His “earthy” watercolors of what he calls “Crop People” and their hidden pains have been truly inspiring even though it doesn't show in my work. Acrylic is my favorite medium although I am equally at home in oils or pastels. Even if travel is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, the expression of my inner world is essential. Besides, I have no idea how long it takes to produce a painting, it can take months or a simple afternoon… ”. Painter of emotion, it is through the path of the unconscious that this artist invites us to discover it.