Profile
Linda Bachammar
Born: 1985
Hometown: Paris
Based in: Fontainebleau, France
Linda Bachammar is a French painter and designer with national and international visibility (France, Usa, Italy). His work is mainly focused on a poetry of existence, drawing its inspiration from nature, travel or meditation. Linda Bachammar installs sweet and strange reveries in her works. She expresses all her energy and breath of life through intense colors. The artist seeks to create a poetry of links between human and nature, dream and reality, the human species and spirituality.
About Linda Bachammar
What inspires you?
I am very inspired by anything that brings us to contemplative, meditative or altered states of consciousness. I think that nature is a universal vector towards these states.
Describe your creative process.
I have always had the habit of walking in search of landscapes or small details that will hold my attention. These ballads are active meditations in which my gaze falls on the world and where I will unconsciously be attracted by a breath of wind, a branch, a garden. It is this memory, this emotion that I then try to transcribe in my works to share my feelings with the viewer.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Soul, Colors, Energy
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
Kuniyoshi, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Anders Zorn, Etienne Dinet, Majorelle
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
Chinese brushes, wich allow me specific signs. And also zen music that calm my mental.
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
"What you are criticized for, cultivate it, is yourself." from Jean Cocteau, a french author.
Where do you go for inspiration?
In nature, especially in the forest which is my indispensable resource for living and creating.