Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Marie Rioux
Lives and works in Quebéc City, Canad
M y painting is the product of an irrepressible impulse which pushes me to express and communicate my emotions without hesitation. First, I picture the dominant colour I wish to explore. Then my ideas unfold with a multitude of options.
Through spontaneous gestures, there then cornes the pleasure of mixing colours, sketching shapes and bringing out textures. An initial composition emerges, followed by a considerable labour of reconstruction, leading to the final work. Recently, I have been working with monochromes, which adds a dramatic touch to my atmospheres. The places I depict in my work are mostly my own. They are North American and of the present. Sometimes one may see in them figures present in particular atmospheres.
As I create I incorporate unusual elements into the work, which in a discordant manner echo our presence and our traces in the contemporary environment.
Marie Rioux