This illustration is on a postcard format (105/148mm) with a glossy side.
This hand drawn illustration is printed on a postcard format (105/148mm), glossed on. The other side is mat and can be written on.
I have been drawing since I can remember (like most people I guess, we tried as infants, as children). I've doodled more and more overtime and by 2020 I made more time for it, developping intuitive techniques, following my dreams or reminiscing on travelling, landscapes, people or past traumas...
There's a feeling of timelessness when I draw and I love that feeling. Techniques can vary but I tend to go with my motto: going with the flow of the moment. It might well be subconscious, an idea, a line and I see something that I previously imagined. My love of multitudes of colours resurface all of the time when I draw. I can harmonise or I can contrast depending the state of mind. Memories, people I have met or some abstracts images emerged and through the hand, the line and colours are shaped.
I sometimes have a concrete idea of what I would like to draw but, like life, the initial plan takes a turn... Trusting the process and see where it goes.
I invite to comtemplate life through my artwork, to pause and perhaps to initiate to do the same.
Interpretation of my drawings is of your own so if you feel something, then we've shared some sparkles. However this one is driven by a response to someone I have met and the controversial Madras cloth (for lots of people from and descent from the Carribeans like myself. I drew this one in response to reclaim the 'Madras' fabric, colours and patterns.
My backgrounds are partly based in Guadeloupe islands where the fabric is controversial due to its historical context (a mixture of different nations, sufferings and colonialism interwined in history). I am a mixture, like ALL of us and that cloth is an perdured symbol and example of movements, illusions and cultural heritage.
"Le madras" has involved through time from different perspectives, different countries, different hands, different skins...
I claim it as part of my ancestry.
I reclaim it as my own colours.
Like it or not,
Leave it or embrace it.
