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Sophie Chédeville
Born: 1974
Hometown: Paris, France
Based in: Brittany, France
I studied scenography (and photography, academic drawing, packaging graphic design, concept) in Paris, where I was born, and where I spent almost 38 years. But my first love was painting, so I learned "trompe l'oeil", and the art of fresco.
Mostly I work with oil, for me it is the quintessence of the painting discipline. And gosh, it smells so good and I really love the texture!
When I can't paint (if I travel or if I'm in an exhibition) I used to write, I already wrote a book of poetry, and I just finished a novel. This is kind of sketchbook to me.
In my works, I follow the human emotional human. I want to translate the primordial emotions, the ones that show that humans are alive and so close to each other. I've got much more an engaged painting, that and decorative painting. And I like to follow social actuality and take part of it with my works.
About Sophie Chédeville
What inspires you?
the plants, the wind, and people, the characters , all of that is the principal sensation I work with, it's like earring the suffering of each, and transforme it in energy and paintings, to show that something else is possible, somewhere better,
Describe your creative process.
I look a lot of books, all my favorites painters, it's like a ritual and dive into their own gestures. I fell more confident, and more impregnated. I also write some of the most important ideas I want to show, including colors, dark areas, place of the masses. I write it because I doesn't want to draw on my canvas, I want to fell free as much as possible, to keep the essence of the intention. After I choose the music I want to go with and develop the repetition and the duration of the emotion.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
emotional, strong, sensitive, powerful
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
Hans Hartung, Cy Twombly, Claude Monet, Georgia o'Keefe , Nicolas Poussin
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
heart and fingers
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
It was not an advice, it was a critical sentence, but it become my personal advice "it's too schooly".This phrase that has upset me forced me to go further, and to"go out of the box, every day :search, try to understand, like what you do not like, improve. I found in it the energy to always purchase my goal: tell about human being.
Where do you go for inspiration?
in front of the sea, espacely when it's wendy, or in Paris, in the national center of art Pompidou