totem Painting

I started painting very yound and learned a lot from attending Paris drawing workshops and going to the Sorbonne art plastique courses. Then I travelled a lot and started also working in international business. This gave me a wider view of the world and the opportunity to improve my paintings by learning from my trips. Once returned in France, I first had a son and spent some years looking after him. I first returned to my pencil drawings and then started again painting . Although I still love oil painting, I discovered another way of painting with acrylic painting and enjoy using either medium. I have been painting intensively the past few years, but being also a manager of a holiday place I have few contacts within the painting world in France . I was last given the opportunity to show a good number of my paintings in the Normandy Barriere Deauville (easter 2011). I enjoy taking subjects from real life and transfering them into the world I created over the years. Even when painting animals, I enjoy working on the subject on a world with little connection with reality. Here is a text a French artist, Serge Perkowsky, wrote about my painting. Un après midi chez Aude Sarkozi Il était une fois une oasis délicieuse de la planète Avalon sur Blangy où s'érigeait une jolie chaumière entourée de fleurs majuscules. A l'ombre d'un conifère complice Aude Mélusine et moi partageons la joyeuse amertume du café. Sur l'herbe tendre le furet joue avec les chats et les chiens de la maison. La tendresse de l'instant nimbe les corps et les âmes d'une paisible harmonie. Devant son chevalet, Aude s'empare de leur silhouette sans ombre, se pare de leur énergie cosmique et bleue et les suggère sur la toile en caressant leurs contours. Une géométrie malicieuse définit les formes animales, végétales, célestes en s'imbriquant dans l'espace féerique du tableau. Mais que se passe-t-il? Nous sommes conviés avec douceur à pénétrer l'espace du tableau et nous voilà déambulant avec émerveillement dans une poétique aventure.... The translation reads: An afternoon at Aude Sarkozi's place Once upon a time, there was a delicious haven of the planet Avalon on Blangy on which was erected a beautiful cottage surrounded by flowers uppercase. In the shadow of a conifer accomplice, Aude Melusine and I share the joyous bitterness of a coffee. On the soft grass the ferret is playing with the cats and dogs of the house.