Nout’ vié l’église Champ borne ek son band’ vacoas, 2021

Coryne Boyer  

I was born, I live and I work on REUNION Island as an artist-author. I started drawing very early. As a child, I tried to copy Boris Vallejo's illustrations. I dream of fine art but on my island there is no art school.

In 1999, an enchanted break for me. My partner's job leads us to live in Paris for a few years, I present my work at the GOBELINS school which opens its doors to me for training in decor and design. I m 35 years old.

Back on my island, I know who I am and what I want to do and be. She obviously becomes my muse, my inspiration, I want to constantly discover her, make her known, contemplate her, save her.

And then COVID arrives and there I crisscross my island, again and again, a ballpoint pen in my pocket, I sketch, photograph... I feast on this incessant spectacle that my island offers me, the abundance, the opulence, the generosity. There a waterfall, there a hut, the pattern of a branch, a perspective, a whole setting to escape.

Today, even modestly installed, I continue to fill in pages between black ballpoint pen, Indian ink and gold leaf, I represent landscapes where nature and vestiges are kings.

I opt for black and white because what I want to remember in these settings is the light and shadow. Don't be too easily caught up in colors and distinguish the richness of contrasts and shapes.