Odile Dardenne

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...

Graduated graphic designer, ESAG, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques et d’Architecture Intérieure Met de Pennighen. Paris – France 1984
Specialization in decorative paintings and trompe-l'oeil Escola de arte Visuel Parque Lage Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1991-1992

- Decorative Paintings:
1992 and 1998: Participations of Casa Cor events in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia) and Bolivia - the largest and most complete exhibition of architecture, interior design, landscaping and art in the Americas with major paintings on walls, facade and furniture.
1993-1997: Annual painted furniture exhibitions at Done Mobile, São Paulo (Brazil)

- Canvas and Portraits:
1985: Collective Exhibition - Galerie Rue de Berri, Paris (France) - Portraits
1986: Solo Exhibition - Galeria Aloíso Magalhães​, Recife (Brazil) - Portraits
2018: Solo Show - Príncipe Real Palace Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) - Portraits
2019: Solo Show - Alma às Cores, Mundo do Vino Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) - Portraits