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Creation is the key to my freedom.

Over the years, I have affirmed my universe with my own language and approached an ideal process of creation. The technical characteristics of my painting are the backgrounds worked in several passages of colored layers, softened, revealing the overlays in places, a central motif all in material and thickness, scarifications, the use of deep black to identify elements, the juxtaposition of shine and mat. In ink, the scarifications become pen lines, the central motif thickens thanks to the shellac, shine can also rub shoulders with matt parts.

My expression is in figurative abstraction. My encounter with abstraction took place in the 1980s, during an exhibition at the Beaubourg Center of Kandinsky's paintings. Since then, many other painters have marked and opened my imagination, in the abstract or not, and in particular de Staël, Mitchell, Monet, Zao Wou Ki, Kirkeby, Apel, Richter, Bosch, Bacon, Ernst, Redon, Bram Van Velde ... At each exhibition, an intense emotion in front of a universe so personal, innovative, powerful. However, I do not have the feeling of being able to identify precisely with a family, with a movement, but rather with several. This invaluable and varied heritage has enriched and liberated my work.

When I start a canvas, I mainly focus on the effects of the medium I use, the gesture and the rhythm. Without waiting for anything specific, I am sure that something will be born. Forms then spring up, under intertwining roots or in the silence of wandering spaces. They throb to the rhythm of the world's breaths, alone in the darkness or the dawning light. These intimate beings, where memories and dreams hide, are evident mutating presences. They are alive and protean swarms. Between the chaos of a beginning and the completed form, they settle in the present reality and surprise me. I like the invading mists, the isolated spaces where metamorphoses are born and the impulses of life spring up.

I often noticed that what seemed obvious to me was not necessarily obvious to the viewer, and when I put a title there, it limited the imagination. But for whoever asks me, I can tell my side of the story.


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Creation is the key to my freedom.

Over the years, I have affirmed my universe with my own language and approached an ideal process of creation. The technical characteristics of my painting are the backgrounds worked in several passages of colored layers, softened, revealing the overlays in places, a central motif all in material and thickness, scarifications, the use of deep black to identify elements, the juxtaposition of shine and mat. In ink, the scarifications become pen lines, the central motif thickens thanks to the shellac, shine can also rub shoulders with matt parts.

My expression is in figurative abstraction. My encounter with abstraction took place in the 1980s, during an exhibition at the Beaubourg Center of Kandinsky's paintings. Since then, many other painters have marked and opened my imagination, in the abstract or not, and in particular de Staël, Mitchell, Monet, Zao Wou Ki, Kirkeby, Apel, Richter, Bosch, Bacon, Ernst, Redon, Bram Van Velde ... At each exhibition, an intense emotion in front of a universe so personal, innovative, powerful. However, I do not have the feeling of being able to identify precisely with a family, with a movement, but rather with several. This invaluable and varied heritage has enriched and liberated my work.

When I start a canvas, I mainly focus on the effects of the medium I use, the gesture and the rhythm. Without waiting for anything specific, I am sure that something will be born. Forms then spring up, under intertwining roots or in the silence of wandering spaces. They throb to the rhythm of the world's breaths, alone in the darkness or the dawning light. These intimate beings, where memories and dreams hide, are evident mutating presences. They are alive and protean swarms. Between the chaos of a beginning and the completed form, they settle in the present reality and surprise me. I like the invading mists, the isolated spaces where metamorphoses are born and the impulses of life spring up.

I often noticed that what seemed obvious to me was not necessarily obvious to the viewer, and when I put a title there, it limited the imagination. But for whoever asks me, I can tell my side of the story.

When was Elisabeth Sandillon born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1962