C. Duchêne | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

She completed and produced her first monograph entitled ""Of Women and Gods"" in 2013. Made from ink and acrylic on canvas, her figurative subjects are interpreted in a resolutely expressive manner. The artist feels and transcribes his painting by engaging his entire body; gestural and rhythmic, his works are the result of a total commitment of the artist to his discipline. As if to enter into communion with her subject, the human being, Catherine invests herself entirely in her work, letting her body as well as her emotions and states of mind express themselves on the canvas, without restraint. Bathed in light and endowed with strongly colored hues, Catherine's works catch the eye and challenge. For the painter, the beauty expressed, induced by the gesture, takes precedence over the visual aesthetic. Rather than trying to reproduce the anatomy of her subjects, it is the vital force of the bodies which is represented, privileging the energy which animates them to the harmony of the body lines. To the detriment of the concept and the intellectual analysis, it is the sensitive which is worked here, studied to lead to the realization of a painting turned towards the instinct of execution.