To grasp the beauty of the world, its mystery, its evanescence without allowing yourself to be locked in by the diktats of ready-to-think and ready-to-paint schools, vibrate with a life never exhausted. I have always liked to travel in complete freedom, between the visible and the invisible, to explore other lands. Oil painting before, dry pastels for the finesse of their grain and the fluidity of inks today, are the best companions of my artistic journey to translate the variations of water, a sky, a creature, even a dream. The music - which I listen to when I paint -, the poetry, the thought and the dance punctuate my painting in this journey towards the unfathomable sonata of life. To walk towards the difference to achieve the knowledge of oneself as of the others… while not being afraid to question, to confuse, I take several side roads. Like a poem in image, my pastels offer a point of view of the breath of life that inhabits us, a consent to what is - even in the infinitesimal of existence - that I translate not only through the created image ( often inspired by nature) as well as by the very use of what is technically the most fleeting: the powder of pastels. In my paintings, I “fix” literally as well as figuratively, the moment of a fragile vision of the thing or of existence. "Breath for breath". Eva Klötgen