"MADELEINE PÉIROUX" Painting

I would love deeply to be able to explain what I create on my canvases but I have never managed to come even close to capturing what it truly is.

I paint Sensations.

It is the Content.

I do not paint Subjects.

Things that are not what the "figures" or "scenes" might suggest at first glance.

It is nothing like what someone might perceive, if they are looking right at it, and even if it appears obvious and recognizable.

I understand that, for the vast majority of people, an Orchid, a Woman or the Chrysler Building would simply be seen, well, as a Flower, a Face and, well, a Façade...

But I did NOT paint a Façade, a Face or a Flower:

I painted Deep Satisfying Memories that hold a profound, abyssal allure for me without any intention of explaining or justifying any of my Artworks.

I paint simply because I must.

I understand that Curators look for striking moments that captivate them, hoping, perhaps, to “consider” my Artwork, well, let’s say, significant.

But the nice people who own my canvases (about 75 of them worldwide) acquired these pieces for the Artworks themselves.

And it brings me great pleasure and huge fulfillments that this is the case.

And they all are VERY SIGNIFICANT Artworks.

I already exist in a deeply personal way for 75 living people, some of them own as many as 14 of my Artworks, surprising me by becoming my Art Collectors.

Currently, I paint for people who are still strangers to me, people who themselves assign meanings to what I offer of myself.

I hope you are one of them, for there are very few of them in the entire world.

BE MY GUEST OF HONOR.

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