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eliora bouSquet

lives and works in Paris, France

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Isn’t it peculiar how the imagery of air and breath accompanies us throughout Air and the lightness and freedom of the wind are the inspiration behind this
our lives - just as we are given “the breath of life” when we come into the collection, which celebrates impermanence and the fragile beauty of abut
world, we give out our “final breath” when time has come for us to depart ephemeral life, hence its title “Evanescence”.
this earth. What if our lives were as ethereal as air, our fragile existence but
a light touch on the canvas of the world, condemned ultimately to oblivion? Although I have used matter and texture to create volume throughout this
collection, I have deliberately done so in soft and light touches, as if I had been
using watercolor, to let emotion and light shine through. My brush strokes
also recall the curves of an ECg, their constant and rapid movement to and
fro, linking the top and bottom of each painting. As it is in life, where we have
highs and lows, harmony can and must be born of the union of opposites.
In this collection, everything I paint appears to reach for the sky. In each
painting there is a movement upwards, a desire to escape gravity. In my art
as in my life, I am permanently torn between my dream of an ethereal life
and aspiration to infinity, and my real life, with my feet firmly on the ground,
and subject to all the limitations of reality. Painting is my way of bridging
these two lives, both equally precious to me, despite their contradictions.
 saiLinG to Koo CHee, 2011 ACrylIC ON CANvAS 23,5x23,5 IN. /60x80 CM.
 CraVinG For an isLanD, 2011 ACrylIC ON CANvAS 20x27,5 IN. /50x70 CM.
 Last Boats, 2010 ACrylIC ON CANvAS 23,5x23,5 IN. /60x60 CM.

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