Original artwork description:

Monochrome landscape evoking the St. Lawrence River near Quebec. Made with a spatula and brush, it is through the nuances and variations in tonality that the perspective and the relief of the surrounding hills are perceived. Through the gestures and the pressure exerted on the spatula, the artist manages to create a granularity allowing the deployment of a host of details that can be interpreted by the observer.

The work is minimalist because no element is superfluous, because the forms result only from a few large strokes of the spatula on the canvas and the diffuse shadows are created only by dilution of the medium. The use of black and white here heightens the emotional impact released by the perspective of this large natural space and by the subtleties of the movement of water.

The artist finds in the zen approach, associated with the sumie technique, a spontaneous, intuitive and free freedom of movement.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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