Helene Lamoureux

Former student of the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués Duperré (Paris), textile designer, Helene Lamoureux has been painting for over 25 years, under her artist name RIME.

It is said that the figurative represents certains realities and abstracts of intentions. Enthralled by the colorful tints of the artist ROTHKO, my approach to painting is to define my statements with colors, applied with large brush strokes and to search for new materials. I use acrylic like oil, applied generously, constantly looking for new chromatic effects. To this base, I add various materials, like oil pastels, chalks, inks, pigments, smoothed Chinese rice paper, gold leaf, as well as natural elements like grass, sand, and gypsum...

I stretch my own canvas, sometimes with linseed oil revealing the thread bare on frames with atypical shapes for original compositions, in diptych, or even triptych format.

At first glance, one would qualify my paintings as figurative, its true, but when they represent a Medina, a Buddha, or the St. Victoire mountain, with highly stylized forms, I bring my own print and perception of a world or a culture , that at first isn't very familiar and that I try to tame with the tip of my brush. I found this reality during...

1979-1984 ECOLE SUPÉRIEURE D'ARTS APPLIQUÉS DUPERRÉ-PARIS

Paintings exhibition
June 2015
Eurocopter BP 79 13729 Marignane
Paintings exhibition
Château de BOUC BEL AIR 13320 FRANCE
2014/10/09 to 2014/10/21
Paintings exhibition
La Galerie d'ARC ET SENANS 25610 FRANCE
2014/08/01 to 2014/08/31
Paintings solo exibition
Voûtes de PESMES 70140 FRANCE
2014/07/26 to 2014/08/2014
Paintings and drawings solo exibition
Voûtes de PESMES 70140 FRANCE
2013/08/02 TO 2013/08/09
Solo exibition
ATELIER IMAGE DESIGN 25000 BESANCON FRANCE
2013/09/01 to 2013/10/31