Elisa Cossonnet

Painting enables me to express my feeling of being connected with a rich and diverse universe.
Starting from a feeling of isolation, of living outside reality, I now paint beings going about their day-to-day existence and expressing a full range of emotions: this is Life.
The same questions recurrently pop into my depictions: “who am I? What am I doing?”
The notion of time passing by has vanished; all that is left is a snapshot of the present moment.
I now paint directly on fabric (cotton, linen, etc.), which frees me from the constraints of a specific format, canvas or frame.
I paint on a given surface; my brush, my fingers make their own path on the material and give shape to characters, to scenes that develop depending on my inspiration at the time; I do not plan out or anticipate what should be painted and I’m not guided by any preconceived idea.
I lose myself in the moment, as if in a separate dimensional spacetime, and give it physical form: the canvas takes shape by itself, it shapes itself.
The Will to paint imposes itself on me. Painting, as a generous muse, opens up to the world and makes it hers; it makes me hers and breathes me in. These large painted squares of fabric are lined with coloured linen and can be di...

Elisa Cossonnet is a graduate of the École des Beaux Arts fine arts school in Lyon; she also trained as an illustrator, at the Émile Cohl school in Lyon.
Ever since 2002, she has dedicated herself solely to painting.

2017
galerie espace Beaurepaire , Paris 10
galerie de l'Ancien Courrier, Montpellier
Art Up déco, Paris
Galerie Mam Mutti, la flotte en ré
2016
galerie de l'Ancien courrier, Montpellier
Atelier 30700, Uzès
2015
Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier, Montpellier Galerie de la Citadelle, Porto-Vecchio
Exposition privée, Uzès
Les 111 des Arts, Toulouse, Paris
2014
galerie de l'ancien courrier , Montpellier
Les 111 des Arts de Toulouse et Paris
exposition privée , Uzès
2013
galerie de la citadelle , Porto Vecchio
l'ecloserie la flotte en ré
les 111 des Arts toulouse, paris
2012
Le Bastion, Porto-Vecchio Logis des Arts, Uzès
Mas de la Barben, Nîmes
Atelier de l’écloserie, La Flotte en Ré Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier, Montpellier
2011
Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier, MontpellierHôtel des Consuls, Uzès
Galerie de la Citadelle, Porto-Vecchio Les 111 des Arts, Paris
Galerie Palette, Avignon
Exposition Mas de la Barben, Nîmes
2010
Galerie de l'Ancien Courrier, Montpellier Galerie de la Citadelle, Porto-Vecchio
Hôtel des Consuls, Uzès Les bains Douches, Antibes
2009 Galerie Aleth-Vignon, Paris
Galerie de l'Ancien Courrier, Montpellier
Galerie de la Citadelle, Porto-Vecchio Hôtel des Consuls, Uzès
Galerie « Chez Sa...