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Meet Marianne LEFEVRE
I have been practicing the arts since I learned how to hold a pencil. To improve myself, I took adult lessons from Michel Bona when I was a teenager. I discovered many classical and figurative techniques there: charcoal, red chalk, pastel, oil, clay, watercolour... High school student in Arts option, I had for professor Denis Fontaine who taught me with passion the History of Art and the practice under a more modern and abstract approach. I started exhibiting in 2001.
When I paint, at first, my compositions usually do not have a fixed orientation. My canvas is placed on the ground. I "attack" her from all sides, going around her. Most often, I apply colour in dynamic bursts using large paintbrushes, brushes, or spray cans. The composition reflects these movements. The lines advance in one direction, mark the diagonal of the canvas, make a sudden change of direction ... These dynamic oscillations, often black, are articulated against a background of colour (s), literally exploding contrasts and shapes.
My compositions are created from an alternation of quick free gestures and corrective interventions. The speed and spontaneity of the pictorial gesture allow me to create lines of shapes and passages, as well as textures that I would not be able to obtain with slow and controlled painting. This place left for spontaneity is often the starting point for a production which subsequently becomes more controlled and thoughtful.
At the moment, I am taking a little parenthesis in my usual abstract work to present a series of landscapes. However, we still find my artistic signature there: minimalist painting, almost abstract and sometimes even gestural.
