Palm and Gold - Agave Attenuata Painting

A very colourful glance: the drawing is my tool, the brush my fetish, the colour my spices. The spontaneity of the gesture comes from my experience with the trompe-l’oeil. A look fed from the nature, the palettes that have marked the desire to create. Soul colour: I am a painter fed by journeys of thousands of languages and colourful perspectives. I touch the colour, I feel it, I hear it springing up. I colour the ordinary, I illuminate faces, facades, skies. The ingredients come from architecture, from conceptual photography, an unusual angle, a look filled with meaning and history, there is the touch, the smell ... A colourful filter in the glance, with pigments and brushes, I share the colour of souls. The impact of the format of the portraits: Odile said “It's been several decades that I have been doing wall painting in large format, or very large, on all the continents and adapting to the constraints of decorative painting (theme, pictorial style, surface, light ...). Three years ago , I made a 360 square meters painting! To move to the frame of the canvas was quite a work of adaptation, to find the real format in which the gesture of my brush finds again its fluidity, its natural, an organic expression. The portrait is the ultimate painting exercise, the expression of a character in his intimacy, the architecture of a face or the movement of a body. I can put a whole world in my portraits, I start from an encounter, of a person, what it releases or the language of his hands ... and I build his universe (with or without him), or it can also be the atmosphere, the decor that brings me to the character”. "I start from a sketch in small format, well thought out and constructed. A well-structured drawing that gives a lot of assurance and freedom to embroider the materials and the decor. Then moving to canvas is pure adrenaline"!