Passation d'amour (2007) Painting by Sonja Chiffot

I wines in the world on July 26, 1972 in Dijon of a father plasterer painter and a mother waitress in the family restaurant.
I lived a happy early childhood of small sensitive girl filled with wonder by the beauty of the rural world at Corcelles-les-Cîteaux surrounded of the love of my country family.
I spent my first years the two feet anchored well on this fertile ground of Burgundy to the simple and healthy values and the glance turned towards the abbey of Cîteaux in a dash of spirituality.
I was a child impassioned by the vibrating colors and changeantes which bathed me light according to the seasons, by these forests of Burgundy, such of majestic cathedrals, which offered an infinite variation of tone heats to the autumn. I enjoyed a few simple moments of happiness in company of my paternal grandfather when it invited me to enter his workshop of painter to discover thousand and ones there nuances of coloured pigments which radiated in their small wood racks…
I had fun to create my own pigments in an ancestral gesture which consisted in crushing small deliberately selected stones for their values coloured until obtaining a powder, of which I estimated the treasure, and who was used to me to plot some transitory drawings on the ground in a desire to embellish a space, a surface which seemed to me sad.

My first works undoubtedly were created thus in the magic of my tender years.

I preserved in me all the power and the simplicity of my native soil borrows these moments of color, of harmony with Nature, happiness and spirituality.

An early childhood however too quickly curtailed, stolen, one day of my five years, in a bathroom (which will become a recurring topic with my work) to remain only one small virginal being destroyed by the perverse cruelty of an adult. The heavy weight of the well kept secrecy was right of my words and consequently the only possible expression was that of the drawing and painting. The life continued in this dumbness and I grew by retaining only the beauty of the things, I were useful myself of the colors to give again a little life to my ravaged heart.

My family settled during my sixth year in the South of France, in Saint-Raphaël and I was again filled with wonder by the richness at his contrasted colors, with the tone forts and powerful which cut out the forms distinctly. The Mediterranean landscapes vibrated under this light so much different from that of my native soil.
I passed the greatest part of my time to look at, observe this light, his reflections on the sea, which I hardly discovered, like filling up me of all this new energy, of all this brightness in a communion with this Nature which allured me each busy day.
After all my brittleness discovered I filled up of all this solar power.
I continued my small ritual of creation of new pigments to embellish my new space, a manner of undoubtedly adapting me this new land of welcome.

I discovered the Visual arts with the college and thei...

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1972
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists