Ghyslaine Payant

Welcome to my artistic universe. I am a multidisciplinary artist: photographer, painter, I also do a little sculpture but it is with my collages that my approach is the most accomplished.

With images cut out from fashion, cooking, renovation magazines, and others, I create paintings depicting daily life, landscapes, cities.

The cut-out images are a reflection of the wealth of a part of the population, of overconsumption. By the opposition of these cuts, these tears, these fragmented and reconstructed images, I show the contradictions and the abyss that exist between these two worlds, between wealth and poverty.

On the other hand, when I stage nature, the cut-out images are a reflection of the pollution that is integrated into the landscapes, so omnipresent that we no longer see it unless we look closely.

Symbol of the urgency of the passing of time which is leading the world to even more inequalities and climatic catastrophes, I integrate dials into my paintings.

For painting, whether it's acrylic, watercolor, oil or other, I use my photos as inspiration and mainly my travel photos. I have a rather naive style and I don't bother with too many details.