Laurence Chiche

Laurence CHICHE was born in 1967 in Marseille and lives today in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.
A self-taught artist, she has always devoted most of her free time to learning drawing, then painting and more recently sculpture.
She finds her inspiration in the work of great photographers such as Penn, Avedon, Demarchelier or Ervitt; but also in the colourful universe of Pop'art or Street Art.
"I am fascinated by feminine beauty and the expression of certain looks. Through my portraits I wish that each woman finds herself and feels at the same time light and deep, powerful and soft, magical and beautiful, welcoming and free, sensitive and vital, childlike and wise, priestess and spontaneous, feminine and complete. My portraits look like the people I am attracted to. »
Whatever the medium she chooses, whether it is her work of painting on canvas or collages on the pieces she has first sculpted and then reproduced in resin, she always associates bright colours in order to best reveal the volumes, lights and expressions of her subjects.
"I am animated by the desire to put in colour the expression and the strength of certain glances. »

EXHIBITIONS: Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Clermont Ferrand, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong...
GALLERIES: BO Gallery (Clermont Ferrand), Galerie des Artistes (Kuala Lumpur).