Forêt du bonheur / Forest of happiness Drawing by Émilie Pauly
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Pencil
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 14.2in, Width 10.2in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Naive Art Fantasy
Ce dessin représente une forêt enchantée, peuplée d'oiseaux, d'écureuils et de diverses créatures imaginaires. Chacun vaque à ses occupations. Tandis que certains oiseaux surveillent leurs œufs, un autre, plus coquet, se pomponne devant son miroir. Un troisième rentre pour se mettre au chaud au coin du feu. Dans l'arbre situé à l'arrière-plan à droite, une petite fleur à trompe convoite une autre fleur, dont elle aimerait bien aspirer le suc. Deux écureuils dans un hamac observent ce qui se passe en bas. Au pied des deux arbres, un couple d'écureuils se fait la cour, tandis qu'un autre écureuil s'apprête à monter dans le hamac par l'échelle de corde que ses compagnons ont déroulée pour lui. Un autre enfin vient ramasser le fruit tombé providentiellement sur le pas de sa porte.
Au premier plan à droite, deux curieux animaux s'apprêtent à plonger dans les nids douillets que leur proposent deux plantes-berceaux. Une abeille les observe, l'air amusé. À gauche, une plante imaginaire regarde avec fierté les bourgeons et autres plantules nés de la dispersion de ses pollens.
Pencil on paper.
This drawing depicts an enchanted forest, populated by birds, squirrels and various imaginary creatures. Everyone goes about their business. Some of the birds are looking after their eggs, while another is primping in front of a mirror. A third returns home to cosy up by the fire. In the tree in the background on the right, a small flower with a proboscis covets another flower, whose juice it would love to suck. Two squirrels in a hammock watch what's going on below. At the foot of the two trees, a pair of squirrels are courting, while another is preparing to climb into the hammock using the rope ladder that his companions have unrolled for him. Another squirrel is picking up a piece of fruit that has providentially fallen on his doorstep.
In the foreground on the right, two curious animals are about to dive into the cosy nests offered to them by two cradle plants. A bee looks on amused. Finally, on the left, an imaginary plant looks proudly at the buds and other seedlings born from the dispersal of its pollen.
Related themes
ForêtForêt EnchantéeOiseauxDessin NaïfDessin Pour Chambre D'enfant
A self-taught artist, I started painting around ten years ago, shortly after my son was born.
What led me to painting? Essentially the need to escape a boring working life, to reconnect with my childhood dreams at a time when I'd lost my way, and the desire to bring fantasy to everyone (young and old). I was fascinated by the magnificent illustrations I'd discovered in the children's books I'd read to my son, and I'd wanted to create my own images, my own paintings, that would tell the story of my inner world, my dreams, my fantasies, my ideals. I wanted to paint what moved me so that I'd never forget it, so that I'd have a memory of it that I could pass on and communicate.
When I create characters in pencil, I never know in advance what I'm going to draw. I let my hand go and then I see what appears. I like not knowing where my gesture is going to take me. I like to be surprised by what emerges from the first strokes of my pencil. I have the pleasant impression of accessing something of myself that had been lost (in my subconscious or in my distant memories, who knows?).
When I've collected a large enough number of pencil drawings, I look for the ones that could be put together in the same scene, the characters who could have adventures together in the same painting. I spend a lot of time creating these compositions. Once I've worked out which characters have something to say to each other and what setting they could be in, I start painting. I always paint my background first (a natural landscape) and then insert my characters. Everything is done in gouache.
Painting and drawing seemed to me to be more reliable means of expression than texts and speeches. As a linguist by training, I spent a long time working on words and the construction of meaning when I was preparing my doctoral thesis. The polysemy in languages can be so dizzying! Although I'm always sensitive to the poetry of literary works and the beauty of well-crafted arguments, I'm now less moved by them than by the poetry or beauty of images. Words, sometimes misleading or a source of misunderstanding, never colourful enough or on the contrary too saturated, can't do everything. When we no longer know what to say or how to say it, when words fail us, when silence imposes itself, painting, sculpture, music or dance can take over, for the pleasure of all.
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Nationality:
FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1977
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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