Discover the contemporary work of Geraldine Villechenoux

Born in 1970, on the Arcachon Bay, Géraldine Villechenoux is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New Aquitaine. She graduated from the Gironde School of Applied Art in 1992.

For fifteen years, Géraldine Villechenoux has deconstructed the codes of classical painting, creating depths and nuances that lead her towards a lyrical abstraction. It is part of a movement back to life. painting and is distinguished by a pictorial technique of its own. In fact, she invents a process to fix pigments on the canvas, which it spreads to the surface. the hand. Pigment becomes his preferred medium. The intensity This material captivates the eye. She gets velvet. His work evolves through themes that lead to an immersion in another world. This inexhaustible source of inspiration carries her ever further towards the mystery of creation.

Search for origins. Affirmation of traces.

Catalyst of my own feelings, nourished by the world around me, I paint what I see, with an open heart.

I exorcise my emotions through the material by working on the very essence of painting: Pigment.

Étalé with my hands, this velvet, saving balm, softens my conscience on this world.  

In search of illuminating the dark with light, I apply the pigment to my canvases, as if they were a colored soul.

Painting of the depths, necessary updating day of these buried things which only demand to exist. Forms are invented and evolve over time. as time passes.

My works are windows suspended on walls.

They dig openings through through which our imagination escapes.