Marie Bathellier

MARIE VEYRON BATHELLIER

Born in July 1971, Marie Veyron Bathellier spent her childhood in Brittany between land and sea.

She began her studies at the Beaux-Arts de Rennes, continued for a year at the Academy of Arts in Wroclaw - Poland, then entered the Faculty of Plastic Arts at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Since 2003, the artist lives and works on the island of Yeu, an ideal setting for creation.

All of Marie V Bathellier's explorations draw strength, forms and characters from nature and attempt to dialogue with the history of art.

Paintings, sculptures and installations with plural creative languages translate an energy high in colors and her taste for the matter.

Attention is paid to surprises and the use of happy accidents encountered along the way. "We are artists because life alone is not enough. Playing and seizing the unexpected adds to the adventure of creation the joy of always doing better than what one had planned.

The artist regularly escapes to the mountains to taste other forms of weightlessness. Ascents, pleasure and new landscapes. Deployment of nomadic workshops and hides. Shears, rolled canvases and pigments accompany her. Vegetal weaving and gestural painting are practiced in the open air: sensory interpretations of the joy of being. Suspended time, silence, new echoes are precious and favourable.

This process of contemplation, explorations and triggers constantly renews her work.

In the studio, the artist builds with and through color, explores subtle gradations or works on polychromes that reveal themselves more slowly. She creates each color one by one with pigments and then enriches it with her mineral and vegetal collections: birth of textures that are both rich and elementary, archaic and delicate.

Marie V Bathellier works in cycles that feed off each other and develops several series at the same time. She photographs, notes, paints, forms. Large canvases, natural and recycled mediums, raw wood pieces are stored. Graceful branches, carved stones and photographic prints diffuse the energy of the places crossed. Surround yourself with what you like and nothing more.

The artist applies himself only to create singular and sincere works. His unique and serial pieces dialogue with each other and testify to a spontaneous and sensory practice.

Art and life intertwined.