Alchemy 03, 2022

Evelyne Puech  

Coming from a family of artists, Evelyne Puech practiced the reverse glass painting technique with her mother from the age of six. She naturally committed to the School of Decorative Arts' path in Geneva, then obtained a diploma of Artistic Maturity in the Visual Arts section to finish with the University of Geneva in the field of psychology and psychotherapy at the IRAT Institute in Lyon. 

Evelyne Puech is driven by the need to build and express a universe in which she highlights a form of beauty and poetry and to share it. This choice of technique and material has always been the basis of the plastic and aesthetic research of the artist, particularly for reasons of transparency, superimpositions and inversions. The reference artists who inspire her artistic universe are figures of lyrical, mystical or figurative abstraction such as Chu Teh Chu, Zao Wu Ki, Zaoming Wu or even Turner, Brüggel et Bosh.

Evelyne Puech explores reverse glass painting. This technique was widely used for sacral paintings until the Renaissance. It also corroborates the content and meaning of the work of the painter who likes to think upside down, to see things from the other side. It promotes the mobility of her mind. Evelyne Puech's approach constitutes both a movement towards authenticity and an awareness of the irreversible. The accuracy of the gesture takes precedence since what is painted once cannot be touched up again. By leaving an imprint, that of the initial trace, the artist has personally reappropriated this technique with a contemporary support replacing glass by alternating vaporous textures to intensify the material.

Evelyne Puech offers in all of her work a symbolic connotation, a universe of transparencies and materials, a present including a past through subjects that each person can cross. Her works are generally made up of three or four plexiglas spaced out in order to bring a third dimension, which strongly distinguishes her art.