Theophile Delaine

Artist Statement:

After artistic studies at Paris, I have been painting in various parts of the world for more than 20 years. From my native Champagne to Crete, Limousin to Benin and after ten years in Madagascar, i have been living in the Reunion island where the varied landscapes are a great inspiration.

Through all the shapes and colors existing in nature, i try to decipher the messages, the vibratory language, by using them as a pure mode of expression, beyond the symbolic, beyond what is recognizable as an object, beyond words, beyond what we can see.

Each of my paintings is a representation of the questions I ask myself, doubts and discoveries, a slice of the experience of my feelings, a graphic interrogation of our existence and our essence.
These are snapshots of my soul.

I paint the world as i perceive it in its mystery.

Education:

University Paris VIII Music and plastic arts 1989-1991
University Paris I - Plastic arts 2004 - 2005

Exhibitions:

"Balade" media library Saint André 2018 (REUNION ISLAND)
"Voyage" Espace Vapiano - Galerie Opus Art 2017
"Beyond what we can see" media library Saint André 2017
"The ways of the soul" Opus Art Galery Saint Leu 2016
"The ways of the soul" Maison Valiammé Saint André 2016
"Origines" KUDETA - CARLTON - Antananarivo 2007 (MADAGASCAR)
"Origines" SORAFA HOTEL Mananjary 2007
"Origines" Alliance Française, Manakara 2006
"Mystery" Alliance Française Fianarantsoa 2006
"Mystery" Alliance Française, Mananjara 2005
"Mystery" media library Jumilhac le Grand 2004 (FRANCE)

 

Artistic Influences:

Zao Wou Ki, Wang Yan Cheng, Paul Rebeyrolles, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pierre Soulages, Ad Reinhardt, Serge Poliakoff, André Masson,

Tags:

abstract, lyrical abstraction, large painting, abstract landscape, seascape, diptych