Paintings Between Abstraction and Figuration
The place where each canvas blends travel memories and intimate emotions.
These artworks, infused with delicate colors and refined patterns, invite you on a poetic journey between dream and reality.
Anne Guillon: A Woman and an Artist of Profound Sensitivity. Anne Guillon is both a woman and an artist, with a sensitivity laid bare, expressed in her painting through meticulous craftsmanship and extraordinary virtuosity. Her inspirations stem from childhood memories of countries where light and color explode, from Japanese masters, a poem, music perhaps… The interplay of shadow and light and the rhythm of musical composition emerge in several series of paintings, which, like a music box, seem to contain imaginary scores of classical music, opera, jazz—Andante, Allegro… A taste of paradise, a soft and soothing atmosphere.
Before the canvas, she surrenders herself to the expression of her emotions, casting her feelings with both strength and delicacy. The artwork becomes her mirror… Shadows emerge from the material like specters, mysterious forms appearing from an unknown realm. Transforming color into light, and vice versa, harnessing the power of shadow and luminosity in a heightened sensory experience—these are the driving forces behind her art. They give birth to warm compositions at the boundary between abstraction and figuration. Her paintings resonate with the human soul, the passage of time, and the inevitable transformation of beings and things.
She searches, persists, retraces the path of the previous day, capturing light within the depths of the material. Ochres, browns, beiges, delicate blues and greens, layered in translucent veils, echo poetic verses and musical harmonies. These refined overlays create an impression of depth and delicacy. Anne Guillon’s work is meant to be felt—deeply, profoundly!
Marthe Crégut Pellegrino
Curator’s Commentary