Corps célestes - Portrait intérieur, 2023

Delphine Rapaport  

Self-taught painter, I paint mostly with my hands. I use the brushes when the canvas is already almost finished.

For me, painting is a matter of language, body language, which does not immediately come to mind. I start my painting by quickly wetting the canvas with my hands, then I stay for a moment with my hands raised in front of it. It is a question of feeling what invites itself into the invisible, of letting information and emotions come. Then, my hands move on the canvas to bring out the colors, shapes and materials.

I make these images with the aim of making emotions vibrate, inviting people to travel, offering beauty. My paintings are also there to challenge, to allow the observer to meet himself, to do a real inner work, and why not to connect to new horizons, new possibilities.

I also do commissioned what I call "destiny-portraits". I paint them in channeling, for those who wish to enter into a relationship with their light, their soul, their inner guide.

At the heart of my creations, there is care, the one we take for ourselves and the one we can receive.

Art also has this power, I try to honor it in my works.