Marie Rioux
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW raw truth. My perception is the sum of all these traces, lived emotionally and engraved onto my memory. It enables me to beget these new depictions of the land through my language.
When showing clear references to perceptual reality, your paintings convey a captivating abstract feeling that provide with dynamism the representative feature of your canvass, as Rencontre au Milieu de la Nuit. Would you shed light to your main sources of inspiration?
As I mentioned, I work instinctively. It may seem strange, but there was no“ source of inspiration” as you saw it, at least no clear source in my mind. Thus for this work, I chose black first. Spontaneously, I painted mostly black spaces. Then a red was decreed, was resolved. This was followed by a yellowish white light, which provided a glimmer of hope in this semi-darkness. The dominant black was very present. By scratching the white surface of the canvas in some places it became perceptible and