ARTISTIC APPROACH
I have always loved to paint.
As a child, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink, color, any medium lying around in my parents’ “atelier.” Both my parents are artists. We grew up surrounded by art, by beauty. We were dragged to every single museum, from the Louvre to the Museum of Art in Reggio Di Calabre, at the end of the boot of Italy. I then began to be aware of the importance of knowledge, opinions, and slowly I was able to describe what moved me or gave me pause.
I learned patience and silence. Look, understand, transcribe. I bought lots of books and went to museums alone, all things I still do. It is almost therapeutic. Beauty and your thoughts.
Movement is essential to me. I was a ballet dancer from the age of 8 to 17. I learned to use my body to move, to bend to a certain shape. Conscious of what I could ask of my body and of the impression on the external eye. Aware of the effect.
I took 8 years of piano as well. Movement, again. In tandem with sound. A harmony and disharmony similar, in some respects, to painting.
My work is the expression of my sensibility. Of the human figure, from life to abstraction.
I realized that art cannot be proper. Art has to be exaggerated. So I used my art to show my soul. Art that was engendered within me. I believe painting offers a way to dream and create emotions. Painting helps me think. This is me and my blank canvas.
What keeps me going is thinking about the next time I will be painting.
What you see is what has moved me. My emotion, my colors, my inner world. Expressed through the medium of my hand. In its raw form.
AN EMOTION BEFORE THE FORM
Beyond the "finished" product – because, to me, there is no such thing as finished – there is my imagination, pure and raw. I create, instinctively. What moves me at the moment. And what moves me now may not move me later – in that case, I go back to the original work. I like the work to be constantly in progress.
I use color as a way to create impact, visual memory. I am moved by the interaction of colors, how one medium will merge into another. I am deeply intrigued by the unexpected.
I use black and white as a way to communicate Light, Contrast and Density. What I believe will be more powerful without the use of color. Black and white is in no way a shortcut to completion. To me it is even harder than color as it more brutally honest and sometimes less seductive / approachable.
It is important for me to allow the imagination to travel, build up internally.
I have always been influenced by comedy, by ballet and any form of dance. I am attracted to the ability of the human face and body to move and create.
I create because it makes me feel good. I create because I like beauty. I create because I like harmony and disharmony at the same time.
I like to avoid the "pretty," the "expected," and I aim for the "weird," the "exaggerated," the "powerfully grotesque." But I am able to simplify the line to create harmony if I wish. I believe that, beyond all forms of interpretation, a deep understanding of how we are made is essential. Understanding how and why allows the imagination to travel (once again...).
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Paris in 1989. Philippine de Richemont holds a master’s degree in Graphic Design & Photography from ESAG-Penninghen (2012), complemented by an education abroad in Photography, Graphic Design and Screen Printing at the California College of Art in San Francisco (2011). She is an artist with multiple faces. From bold and colorful to powerful monochromes, she is an artist inspired by the constant movement of our world.
Philippine lives in New York and travels regularly to France.. And beyond. Wherever her imagination takes her.
Welcome to the material interpretation of my mind.
Bienvenu devant l'interpretation matérielle de mon esprit.
INFLUENCE
Nude on Sand, Oceano, 1936 by Edward Weston
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams
La Corrida, Pablo Picasso, 1959
Pipilotti Rist - Sip my Ocean
William Eggleston
Lucio Fontana
Franco Fontana
Pierre Soulages
Kandinsky
and many more…
SHOWS
