Hotel R Print

annamarous.com Marous (b.1978) has been painting since her early twenties. Her work can be found in collections across the globe. She studied at the Visual Arts Center in Westmount and at l'Atelier Circulaire in Montreal and invested herself in artistic collaborations and private mentorships. She first studied photography, etching and painting in her twenties and has had an ongoing study of modern and contemporary art. Colour and atmosphere are at the center of Marous' compositions. Her works navigate between the figurative and the abstract with a manifest sensitivity and an appeal for evasion, playfulness, beauty. Versatility follows her into her artistic personality. Her themes speak of a love of world culture, natural beauty, art history as the sources that drew her towards her own path. Expressionism comes out as the dominant style but her paintings are poetic and tender despite their luscious colours. The influence of the modern masters and the school of Paris are frank: Picasso, Matisse, Klee, Tolouse-Lautrec, Dufy, Modigliani; all are present in her work but she leads on with a contemporary and more graphic print of some classic subjects such as still lives and abstract works. Marous speaks about painting in this way: "Art is freedom. It is a never-ending conversation. If you summon the courage, painting offers the possibility to discover where your intuitions lead you, free from constraints other than those brought about by your medium and surface. It is a dance of the encounter with paint- a dance where you get drawn in so deep, and you hope to catch the hand of the viewer."