Discover the contemporary work of Annick BEAULIEU
Extremely sensitive, with all five senses always alert, I feel the world as much as I perceive it.
A contemplator, life amazes me at every moment, making nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
I grew up with my paternal grandmother. The daughter of an Egyptologist, born in Cairo a quarter of a century ago in Egypt.
The story of his life in this country, whose centuries-old civilization built these architectural feats guarded by stone giants that still fascinate us today, left a deep mark on my childhood imagination.
His stories were set in ruined temples, pyramids, and marvelously decorated tombs of therianthropic gods; the characters were mummies.
The names of the places themselves sounded "exotically" to my ears: Cairo, Ismailia, Deir el-Bahari, Alexandria, Aswan, Luxor...
This is how, at a very young age, I became aware of the diversity of the world, of the existence of other peoples, other cultures, other customs, other forms of art, which have never ceased to pique my curiosity and continue to fascinate me.
All these influences have nourished me, educated my taste, and forged My very eclectic world: antique furniture patinated by time, ethnic objects from around the world bearing the imprint of the craftsman who made them, mixed with small pieces of nature, such as fossils, bark, shells, stones...
It all begins with the support, a brown linen canvas: nature beneath the paint, like a calming effect before the confrontation.
Then comes the work with the material. I layer, mix, scrape, sprinkle... acrylics, mediums, but also pigments, marble powder, sand, gravel... Fragments of Nature.
I use acrylic, which dries quickly because I build up many layers of paint, and it's not uncommon for me to start and finish a painting in a single session.
I throw emotions onto the canvas, give them color, crush them, deform them with the blade of a knife, shape them with a plastic card, stretch them, and dissipate them with a brushstroke.
An intense, timeless hand-to-hand combat, sometimes almost to the point of exhaustion.
