Marie Rioux
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
surroundings to develop my creative process. I am constantly soaking them up. They modulate the discourse of the work as a way of ending up with the desired autonomous aesthetic. It’ s a little difficult for someone like me who works instinctively to reply analytically about what sets off an emotion and how that is conveyed in the spatial organisation of the painting. Nevertheless, I can tell you that I am incapable of copying, of reproducing what I see, and that I have absolutely no interest in doing so.
In a few words, I would say that my awakening to nature and music, passed on to me by my parents as a child, all the moments of wonder watching contrasting skies, the time spent looking at and admiring the vastness of the ocean, while we are so small... all this stimulated my sensibility. My work is always located in and depicts the outdoors.
At the same time, looking at the work“ Deuxième jour”(“ Second Day”), we can see that the monochrome colour sustains the very essence of the painting, meaning its atmosphere, the vastness of the land. Circles that we perceive, like a magnifying glass through which we see people walking from behind, or standing motionless in contemplation. What obsesses me is the emotion one feels looking at a land transformed by a grey stormy day where industrial elements scratch it with their artificial lines or contrasting colours. I see infinite beauty in these visions. Like everyone, I enjoy clement weather. On the other hand, I draw no inspiration from it. To generate creative impulses in me, nature should be wild, stormy, or at least in ferment.