Charlotte Barrault
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1985, lives and works in Paris.
Particularly attached to the material and technique of oil painting, Charlotte Barrault depicts flowers, landscapes, portraits and interior scenes, seeking to evoke the present moment with a sensitive touch. She draws her inspiration from encounters, meditations, intimate or more distant journeys, capturing fleeting moments.
Inspired by the Impressionist period and certain intimist painters (Vilhelm Hammershoi) or Symbolists (Odilon Redon), her compositions of light and colour seek to achieve a certain harmony, often figurative, sometimes more dreamlike.
In the theme of flowers, she finds the symbol of life, cycle and rebirth, as well as being a true incarnation of colour and matter. Stripped of their vases and sometimes even their stems, her brightly coloured flowers seem to dance.
In the paintings of interiors done after confinement, the eye catches a ray of sunlight or an open window on a studio or bedroom, inhabited but empty, recounting the silent present that follows the abandonment of the place. Sometimes, a figure is still there, alone, impassive, indifferent to the painter who is observing him.
In the Zen garden series, we lose ourselves in the dance of the branches as they play with their mirrors in the water, in a gentle, lively vibration.
In other landscapes, Charlotte Barrault loves the hypnotic play of light filtered through the trees. Recently, she discovered engraving, which she is passionate about and which feeds her work around the representation of flowers and interiors.
She has received several awards, including the Gabriel Zendel Prize (Taylor Foundation) and the Sennelier Prize at the Salon des Artistes Français in 2020. Her studio in the 19th arrondissement of Paris is open to visitors.
"For this Chamberlan exhibition, "Portaits de Chaussures", I tried to stage each shoe to restore its elegance, its charm, its personality, like a living subject!
