Discover the contemporary work of Sabine de Saint Albin

Sabine de Saint Albin is an established artist from Versailles, who returned to live in the Royal City after several years
spent in Singapore and then Oslo.
Passionate and sensitive, she loves new challenges and meeting others in their uniqueness. A graduate of an art school in Paris, she was an artistic director in advertising agencies, then a designer of custom-made haute couture hats, with the conviction that "everyone is different and that is what is beautiful." »What interests her is to place the human being at the heart of her creations, he is her main source of inspiration. Her arrival in Asia in 2006 marked a turning point for her: far from France and her roots, she gained confidence, maturity, and dared to bring out a new form of art, her own, by drawing inspiration from her new environment. She constructs paintings from a game of superimposing photographic elements. Through this artistic approach, photography becomes for Sabine de St Albin, the basic material, a clay that she shapes and manipulates at will.
In Singapore, she focuses her work on words, which she creates, fills, deforms, mixes, cuts and cuts. But by settling in Oslo, in 2010, she lets herself be caught up in the invasive nature, which in turn inspires her work. Her technique also evolves: going beyond the process of juxtaposition, the artist now uses the freedoms of digital technology to go further and further in creation.
 

Sabine de St Albin is one of the first artists of the Digital Art movement, finely handling photography in photocollage. Painting with photos is her credo. Her color palette is made up of photographs taken outdoors at different times of the day and in all weathers. To compose her colors, Sabine de Saint Albin « shoots » all over the place and collects all kinds of images of forests, sea, crowds, urban elements... according to her inspiration. This is how her blacks are fragments of starry nights, her blues are reflections of shimmering sea or sparkling snow, her greens are bursts of tree foliage, etc.: nature offers her an incredible palette, moving and alive, with infinite nuances.
Moreover, it is by offering different levels of images that Sabine Jeannot suggests emotions and questions in her paintings, as if she preferred to make the viewer feel rather than impose a vision on them. She does not show anything directly, she invites.
“In our society, everything must be expressed in a single sentence, a single feeling. However, synthesis does not allow us to say everything... That is why I like to propose different levels of interpretation of my works, different directions, to be more accurate, richer. "
We must therefore approach Sabine Jeannot's paintings to discern a quantity of details invisible at first glance: trees, buildings, characters, snow, the artist herself photographed in a mirror... The images address the unconscious of each person. Some people only see the abstract dimension, others distinguish the figurative elements, portraits, close-ups or scenes of life. "I want to surprise, for the painting to live differently in each person, so that it becomes unique for anyone who contemplates it..."