Seller Émilie Pauly
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Pencil
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 8.3in, Width 11.8in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Naive Art Fantasy
Ce dessin représente une fratrie de nuages jouant au chat et à la souris. Les parents, couchés l'un sur l'autre à gauche du soleil, forment un couple heureux, amusé par les jeux auxquels s'adonnent leurs deux enfants. Le plus grand, muni d'un filet à papillons, court après le plus petit, qui se rit de lui. Les deux parents sont attendris par ce spectacle. Ils forment ensemble un magnifique paysage céleste sur lequel est venu trouver refuge un oiseau-otarie chapeauté. Allongé sur le flanc du plus gros nuage comme il le serait sur un rocher en bord de mer, il se repose près des arbres et des coquillages. À son réveil, plongera-t-il dans la brume que laissent derrière eux les nuages ? Se joindra-t-il aux jeux des enfants ou reprendra-t-il sa migration vers d'autres contrées ?
Pencil on paper.
This drawing shows a group of clouds playing tag. The parents, lying on top of each other to the left of the sun, form a happy couple, amused by the games their two children are playing. The older child, carrying a butterfly net, chases after the younger, who laughs at him. Both parents are moved by the spectacle. Together they form a magnificent celestial landscape on which a bird (or a sea lion?) with a hat has taken refuge. Lying on the side of the biggest cloud as he would on a rock by the sea, he rests close to the trees and shells. When he wakes up, will he dive into the mist left behind by the clouds? Will he join in the children's games or resume his migration to other lands?
A self-taught artist, I started painting around ten years ago, shortly after my son was born.
What led me to painting? Essentially the need to escape a boring working life, to reconnect with my childhood dreams at a time when I'd lost my way, and the desire to bring fantasy to everyone (young and old). I was fascinated by the magnificent illustrations I'd discovered in the children's books I'd read to my son, and I'd wanted to create my own images, my own paintings, that would tell the story of my inner world, my dreams, my fantasies, my ideals. I wanted to paint what moved me so that I'd never forget it, so that I'd have a memory of it that I could pass on and communicate.
When I create characters in pencil, I never know in advance what I'm going to draw. I let my hand go and then I see what appears. I like not knowing where my gesture is going to take me. I like to be surprised by what emerges from the first strokes of my pencil. I have the pleasant impression of accessing something of myself that had been lost (in my subconscious or in my distant memories, who knows?).
When I've collected a large enough number of pencil drawings, I look for the ones that could be put together in the same scene, the characters who could have adventures together in the same painting. I spend a lot of time creating these compositions. Once I've worked out which characters have something to say to each other and what setting they could be in, I start painting. I always paint my background first (a natural landscape) and then insert my characters. Everything is done in gouache.
Painting and drawing seemed to me to be more reliable means of expression than texts and speeches. As a linguist by training, I spent a long time working on words and the construction of meaning when I was preparing my doctoral thesis. The polysemy in languages can be so dizzying! Although I'm always sensitive to the poetry of literary works and the beauty of well-crafted arguments, I'm now less moved by them than by the poetry or beauty of images. Words, sometimes misleading or a source of misunderstanding, never colourful enough or on the contrary too saturated, can't do everything. When we no longer know what to say or how to say it, when words fail us, when silence imposes itself, painting, sculpture, music or dance can take over, for the pleasure of all.
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Nationality:
FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1977
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists
