 French landscape painter, born in 1966, lives and works in Paris.
Principal exhibitions : 40th Salon de la Marine 2007, Salon Violet, Salon des Artistes Français, Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
Awards : Medal "Ville de Vittel", Gold Medals in Lyon and Evian Exhibitions, Silver and bronze Medals in Nancy Exhibition.
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CLIC D'OR
Clic 50 laureate, November 2007. |
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Using the transparent effect of glaze which she uses after the manner of the Old Masters, Véronique Terrieux offers us endless skies, fanciful series of clouds and imaginary sandstorms which make one feel giddy, while delicately playing with light and shade and mysterious, deep, amniotic waters which she floods throughout with light. Her large stretches of desert and vast expanses of water might have belonged to the beginning of time were it not for a lighthouse which looms up or an anchor which plunges down here and there, symbols of the presence of man she refuses to ignore.
Véronique Terrieux explains that she wants to fix on canvas ”instants of nature which seem eternal”. This quest for timelessness makes her constantly come and go from “inner landscapes” (so goes the title of one of her poems) to outer horizons which she reveals for us. She writes:
« I have patiently spun my web
The light has been trapped into it
In the large web of my canvas. »
Véronique Terrieux traps and retains us in her canvas or web which she paints for us: an invitation to dream, contemplate or perhaps pray.
« Enter into this silence, close your eyes
And, at last, look and see. »
(J.P.Bonnardot)
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