Kermesse Print

Clothilde’s painting is the result of an unusual career within the world of contemporary art. She did not come to painting by accident but by necessity. By painting, she found a way of expressing and sharing her perception of the world, her exaltations and anxieties. Her art is a sort of testimony of the challenge of living together whilst trying to be unique. This is brightly evidenced in her various crowd scenes. She portrays crowds of individuals drowned in an alienating mass; yet through her palette of colors she is able to express the rich diversity of each individual, of each soul. However her work is not so much preoccupied by masses than by the fragility which leads us to abandon our individuality in an attempt to fit in. Oil and color create urban scenes in which our attention is first drawn to this recurrent crowd before we come to a more nuanced view of the portraits. Her paintings succeed in establishing a connection with the viewer; our own hidden fears are eventually brought to life on the canvas.