Au bord du Rhin, 2022

Sophie Roy  

My landscapes seek to capture the particularity of a light. The evening light exalts the sonority of the colors, and allows me to play with the accentuated contrasts between the areas of shadow and light. The play of reflections in the water is also a source of inspiration and reverie, to contemplate and paint. The surface of the water transforms what overhangs it into abstract flat tints, sometimes fantastic. The elements of the landscape, particularly the trees, the skies and the water, bring me this feeling of wide breathing that I seek to represent.

The objects that surround me, sometimes the most banal, also interest me, through their reflections and their materials. My painting captures stagings of objects, but also things that we do not look at, those of everyday life, like a sink for example. The term "still life" that is commonly used does not satisfy me: I prefer to speak of the inhabited silence of things (it is Aragon who says it about Matisse). Objects have this magical power to create an atmosphere, and this is what I seek to render in painting. My work also aims to restore the dialogue between objects by the reflection of color on their surfaces, the way in which they capture light and create subtly colored brilliance and shadows.

Oil painting, a sensual material, is my favorite technique, because it allows for subtle blends of colors, and transparency effects that are not found with other techniques.