The artist
Marie-Laure Romanet
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BECOME AN ARTIST! IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW HIS HEART! My artistic journey began a few years ago at the age of 44. It was then a period of spiritual growth for me and I wanted to nourish my soul. This period of introspection was both exciting and terrifying, but the only person I finally had to convince was myself. Having the luxury of time really helped me dive inside to find out what made me happy. I'm halfway through my life and I'm finally discovering who I am! I love to create, every day spent in my studio is a real blessing, a joy, a channel for my soul to sing!
Self-taught artist, I first explored in painting, the various mediums to quickly orient myself towards collages. This technique gave free rein to my imagination and everything magically assembled like a puzzle. I had the honor of having been woven by the Pinton workshops in Felletin-Aubusson, from a collage made in 2014. Then curiosity directed me to mixed media where I was able to let my inspiration wander. according to my moods! In 2017, thanks to an Australian friend Bruce Weir, himself an artist, I opened the door to abstract expressionism. It was a real revelation that allowed me to escape even more. I quickly got a taste of action painting, the dripping technique that Pollock was particularly fond of! Inexorably my art evolves and I combine various techniques according to my inspiration such as the inclusion of wool, threads, a nod to Aubusson tapestry, as well as various materials. I also use spray paint and experiment with various techniques of spraying paint on the canvas. I found myself and today more than ever, I let myself be guided by an invisible energy, source of all creations, I dance around the canvas, and let myself be impregnated, absorbed by the movements, as in a shamanic rite, rocked and carried away by the music that penetrates the depths of my cells. I am in perfect agreement, my emotions are thrown on the canvas and everything is balanced to create the work of my feelings! I hope you enjoy visiting my site, as much as I do to create and share my work! So far, I have exhibited in France, Italy (SanRemo), South Australia (Adelaide), South Korea, United States (Montclair, New Jersey) and I am waiting for a solo show in New York at the Julian Espinal Art Project gallery.
"The surging, irresistible, paroxysmal genius of Marie-Laure Romanet Prin. As if we were witnessing the outburst, the formidable Tohu Bohu of Creation. It bursts and overwhelms us, furious chaos through the sumptuous colors in counterpoint, scattered and configured and the prodigious breath which animates the inextricable tangle which unfolds before us like the evidence; it has name love ... it has name life. Certainly, this explosive painting has its reverse, its hell but like the insane energy demanded by the fiat lux that is each work. A name comes to mind when I see these works exhausting the space, carrying all the influx, all the egregores, a name which carries within it the same vision of the divine eschatology: Arthur Rimbaud It is not Chaos but its opposite: the explosion of light which carries and metamorphoses all the slag and all the blackness into infinite energy. Marc Guillaumat
