Rivière Souterraine, 2024

Frédérique Bernard Fab  

Painter based near Chartres, Frédérique Fabri chose abstract expressionism to embody the feelings and thoughts that animate her when faced with the spectacle of the Sea, Oceans and Rivers. The smell of sea spray, the sound of waves, the murmur of water in shells and the ocean floor are her sources of inspiration. Sea, Coral, Flora and Underwater, Color, Brilliance, Gold… These words illustrate her painting.

In 1999, it was the discovery of the works of Mark Rothko, his large colored formats with moving surfaces at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris that led her towards acrylic and large formats. The fluidity of Jackson Pollock's paintings also greatly inspired her.

She tries to convey with her brush this inner universe where her wonder, her quest for harmony and appeasement in the face of the liquid elements of our planet are mixed. She mainly uses acrylic paint and inks on linen canvas, sometimes mixing other techniques, resin, graphic leaves, with essential work on colors, respecting the undulating shapes and colorful bursts of the underwater world to balance her compositions. Gold leaf is everywhere on her canvases, like a sparkling signature, a memory of the jewelry and chiseled copper from the markets of her childhood spent between Morocco and Spain.