Barres Christine | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Born in 1960, Christine Barres lives and works in Rodez in the Aveyron region. From an early age, she grew up in a colourful atmosphere and enjoyed the simple pleasures of life in the countryside. Painting was as important as speaking: Christine used the representation of shapes and shades to say everything that she could not express in words. Her essential element being colour, everything else was a pretext. \n\nAvoiding at all costs a creative routine and a redundancy of subjects, the artist seeks, before anything else, a resulting authenticity and emotional charge. So she begins with an idea, a feeling, a moment lived and transcribes it directly on the canvas with oil. Sometimes she slips some silhouettes or objects into her paintings, bringing them a figurative dimension, while keeping a part of abstration because she considers it as engine of creativity, as much as dreams and human relationships.