L’atelier bleu

 EXHIBITION Title: 

L’atelier bleu

approach:

In the studio, an image emerges from the vacuum, expands, takes shape and is transformed, creating a space and a meaning that remain intangible. This body of work is part of a series of exhibitions created in a variety of media to evoke the artist's studio: that paradoxical space in which being and doing intersect and engender each other. A juxtaposition of paintings, glass sculptures, constellations of beads, watercolours and digital prints representing layers and strata in the history of creation, where the alchemy of existence becomes a metaphor for the self and for consciousness.

This work references Matisse painting’s L’atelier rouge. Here, the studio traces the geography of an internal vision as it evolves towards exterior manifestation. It fluctuates intermittently between form and formlessness, creating a trajectory without a map or direction that is reinvented and redefined with each movement. 

The blue heart is presented as a group of three within a single form with interlaced arteries.  Three become one like three continents conjoined in a single world, three celestial vaults, three intercommunicating vessels. An image that stems from the heart, the colour blue is without word or explanation,, both meaningful and meaningless. I accept it for what it is, bringing it to life as I experience it on the white paper.