Bénédicte Devineau

My painting is an adventure, a journey in creation, an imperative appointment. I don't know in advance what will be said on the web. I have the desire to paint, to let a world emerge, to play with a space.

I go beyond the representation of reality and, from the events that go through me, from everything that lives in me, I create a work, I paint a moment of life, the birth of unexpected shapes and colors. I am also looking for the right energy and the right gesture (just because I live from the inside).

To create, I must forget myself and yet inhabit myself fully. I worked and experimented with charcoal, oil paint, watercolor, pastel, acrylic paint, collages and mixtures of materials, earth. I start from the color and the gesture then I work until the emergence of a poetic world. I seek this complicity between the different colors of my palette which sing or repel each other, in a limited number in a search for harmony.

Of these many forms that come from the freedom of gesture, I keep only a few that become signs. I work on this space between two materials or two forms: opacity, transparency, superposition, passage, edge, limit. It's an invitation to travel...