Virginie Benoit-Dignac

An instinctive artist with a spontaneous style, Virginie, a painter from Clamart, has forged her own unique path. Her work is cheerful, fresh and full of humour. She has always infused her palette with an irrepressible joie de vivre.

Her work focuses on collage, pastels, ink and oil. These four mediums highlight both the coherence and depth of her works, which, in their own way, explore the human psyche. Jumping from one discipline to another, from one technique to another, shifting the gaze. Virginie's style breathes new life into academic art, infusing it with genuine vitality. Powerful portraits, full of freedom, and caricatures brimming with humour. Colour and texture are the two fundamental pillars of her work. Whether combined with collage, pastels, ink or oil, she thwarts any contrived avant-gardism and feels no affiliation with any current movement. The variety of techniques, media and styles employed testifies to the uniqueness of each of her artistic approaches.A whole new world of writing emerges through the use of paper, paving the way for the exploration of new possibilities in visual representation. It is a radical '(re)imagining' of form and meaning. The cut-outs take on a graphic quality. Virginie enjoys engaging with the accidental effects created by the medium, using the tears to anchor her line. With this technique, by tearing the paper, Virginie transforms the story of the blank surface, bringing to life the dynamics of the body in motion.