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Lucie Duban

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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW with french“ pâtisseries” in the eyeheavy in decoration and colours- had an impact too. Its sultry aspect has this almost preemptive effect on people who don ' t want to cut into it to preserve its artistry. So I grew up with this aesthectic. I was also drawing with my french grand-mother, who adored drawing butterflies and flowers. Plus my mother was an excellend drawer when younger, she could have been a great illustrator.
About my spanish roots, the sunny aspect of this country we discovered as kids with my little sister, also drove me to colours. I love the sun and the way colors affect us. And colours are quite present in Spain, more than in the west coast of France where I come from whose palette is smoother.
You are a versatile artist and your approach reveals an incessant search of an organic symbiosis between abstraction and figurative: we we would suggest to our readers to visit http:// lucieduban. com / in order to get a synoptic view of your work: in the meanwhile, would you like to tell to our readers something about the evolution of your style? In particular, are your works painted gesturally, instinctively? Or do you methodically transpose geometric schemes from paper to canvas?
In a sense my style has always been pretty much the same from the beginning, when I started to paint seriously. A lot of colors and forms which could recall biological forms which would then create together a composition. As a painter I have evolved lately, I can see it, it ' s getting more interesting and I hope to continue on this trend, improving my personal style.
Regarding my process, whether it ' s for my main series Natura or my abstract paintings, I always start from scratch. It happened a few times in the past I had a preparation on paper, and I transposed it to the canvas. It did work but I have been less satisfied as a painter, as a maker, with this way of doing. It ' s way more work for me to invent it out of the blue once I start a painting, that is true, but it has a stronger uniqueness to it, and I asbolutely want to mainting this in each of my artworks. So that each one of them is unique and authentic. I don ' t like the manufactured aspect of art. I respect artists who do so, but it ' s simply not my path. I may be wrong to proceed this way because my production is slowler as it requires to constantly create a unique piece within my style. But it ' s a decision I have made since the beginning. This is why my art can seem versatile, in the sense that I tend not to repeat something just for the sake of having proved itselft to function( to please viewers for instance or for a marketing purpose). Otherwise, I feel like it lacks of interest. And I want my art to last.
Regarding my abstract paintings, I just choose a palette and then I start with a background and from there I draw some forms and then I evolve in interaction with the painting. The same with Natura, which is a series
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