When I’m painting...
“When I’m painting, colours and setting them up is the only thing that matter. It is like a magic trick; just blend two colours and they instantly transform themselves. I am always eager to see the result of a new harmony: this almost fluorescent red that I have placed side by side with a blue and that greens it, this greenish yellow that helps me by lighting the canvas, this unintentional colour drip that binds two previously heterogeneous components.Colours have power. I am trying to listen to them, but my hearing is not always very keen…
Over the course of my work; my spirit wanders; plagued by the memory of those walking fishermen perceived in the distance of a Breton aber and who, when caught under a violent sun, thus look like tiny and shadowy dolls, scratching the low-tide beach, as if they were letters of an ancient alphabet scraping a page of music notes spiking a kind of stave.
It is thus for me almost a necessity to wander from canvas to canvas, ever going back to the theme, moving forward in internal variations where the colour is the conductor, hoping from time to time for a charming dissonance, a propitious accident which could perhaps give a little singularity to the final result.
To sum things up, painting is almost vital for me : it is by painting that I get the strongest feeling of existing.”
SOPHIE DELAUNOY
