Mathilde A.

Creating offers me a space and time to channel my feelings into matter. To embody and transcend them, I shape small, sensitive, and organic universes that tell their stories.

Mixed media have always appealed to me. They are multifaceted and rich, existing between accident and harmony. My collages are creative acts of reconciling my ambivalences.

The infinite complexity of Nature fascinates me. In its image, and on my own scale, I try to link precision and abundance in my works.

I climb the tree structure, exploring and tracing its multiplicity, details, and connections. I create meticulous compositions. Then I plunge back into the material and let it guide my hands.

Sands, flowers, feathers, bark, algae and lichens, papers and fibers… Pieces of nature that I gather, classify, and accumulate. Raw materials from which I draw to create. Rough or velvety, vibrant or subtle, thick or transparent.

I color my own sands, press and dry the flowers and foliage, and create paper shapes using a small digital cutter.
My drawings, watercolors or pastels, once cut out, become part of the whole.

I assemble all these elements in balance around my emotions. Like a flurry of suspended notes, which come to find their place in the score.
Each work is a harmony.