Santa Maria Painting

Her pictorial creations, marked by her experience as a textile designer, play with shapes and colours that interlock to invade the space like a jigsaw puzzle. Florence draws you into her graphic world like a game. Initially, in a rapid, spontaneous gesture, the lines criss-cross, intertwine and merge, imprisoning the colour and giving it its full force. Then she defines a framing that will enhance the strong elements of the painting. Florence's pictorial treatment comes close to narrative figuration. We find the partitioned planes, simplified forms, highly coloured flat tints and compositions of a whole generation of artists who loved to play with lines and unstructured forms (Picasso, Adami, Chaissac, Matisse, Niki de St Phalle, Fernand Leger, Miro, Giacometti...). Florence is passionate about cultural and ethnic discovery. Her travels are her main sources of inspiration, and her paintings are often responses to the colourful emotions she experiences on her visits around the world. Discovering scuba diving was a real revelation, and underwater landscapes have become an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration for her. The explosion of colour and the proliferation of strange shapes in the underwater world catch the eye and plunge us into a fantastic world.