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Dominique BLONDEL |
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Rouen (France) in 1955, Dominique Blondel was introduced to the arts, both music and painting, during her childhood by her family. She started her artistic career very young and received at age 12 , a special price from Maurice GENEVOIX ( French Academy), for her poetry. She continued her artistic evolution studying painting with the “école de Rouen”, while she prepared archeology and art history degrees at the Louvre and Pantheon-Sorbonne and then the psychology degrees at the Pratician Psychologist School. Dividing her time between psychology, painting and poetry, she has been exhibiting, first in Normandy then near Paris since 1991. It is then that she invented the “Poïmage” concept, playing between text and picture, poem taken up, or included, in a collage which is a variation on the text more than an illustration. In 1998, the creation of the artist’s collective “La Soupière à Thé” has allowed her to work with other artists and to bring out people’s creativity in the working groups she organizes with Sonia Malemant. About ... BROCELIANDE "Painting, as writing, is an internal necessity, an irrepressible impulse to express what works inside in a slow personal alchemy. The alternation between the text –tale or poetry- and the picture - painting or collage- is identical to the rocking movement, the controlled loss of balance in walk. You must go on on a road without map or compass, as an imaginary adventurer, get lost and find the way back, or find another self as you make a work which, sometimes, escapes and exceeds you. First, I tracked down the light and shadow play in everyday and banal things (door, still life,...), playing with them as you can play with your shadow at your side. Since 2002, I entered in Broceliande as one enters Church. Forest topic is recurrent for me, as well as animal portraits: but these ones are a part of Broceliande too. It’s the mysterious original forest topic, the unconcious and life forest. Outlook on Man, the path to follow or invent, trees and animals refer to ourselves, to our humanity. Broceliande is an inside path. Painting is a miracle which helps me to open and share this path. May Life go with you on it." |
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