3/3 – Running is a story of land, water, smell, air, green, action and so many other sensations…

I started I really don’t know how or why. Should there be a reason anyway?

As a faithful friend, she accompanied me during my artistic burnout, carried me, challenged me, put me down too. I didn’t know it but it was to get up better and run even faster and faster. Running has the ability to hurt you while doing you good.

To run gave me the opportunity to gave up and let go everything when I was in front of my blank canvas. I was just me, entirely me.

From there came the deep happiness of reconnecting with what I loved the most, painting and drawing, and above all reconnecting with myself. This intimate conviction that if I remained in listening to myself, art would follow. Because it would be mine and therefore unique.

And then one day, without having planned it, even though I thought I could no longer do them again, the horses came back.

Freer, more true, more me.

2/3 – 2019 came and I pushed further my experimentations. I kept running, landscape still moved around me. As a graphic designer, I naturally added graphic on my paintings.

They became a sort of mix between a 3D landscape and a view from above. The idea of adding graphics from maps seemed then obvious.

I felt so much freedom and excitement during this painting sessions, a new energy I’d totally forgot with my horses.

I was just terrified of not be able to paint a single horse again on day. It was like an overdose, I couldn’t imagine drawing a line of their shapes again. As if these shapes locked me up in a box I no longer wanted to be. I didn’t see how it was possible to merge defined shapes and the liberty of abstraction…

…to be continued