Veronique Coulon contemporary painter

News

Editorial

It has been some years now the artist from Tours Veronique Coulon handles knives and brushes to give substance to her imagination. This painter, who oscillates between abstract and representational, uses lines and colors in a ceaseless game of construction and of deconstruction of the world which surrounds us. Sometimes close to the lyric abstration, she makes the color fly in a blazing tumult and the surface of the painting covers itself with thousand tints, in which we can discern representational forms. Do those arise from the color or on the contrary, like the imprints slowly snatched from the colored surface, do they shade off? The artist lets, it seems, the spectator to decide.

Sometimes closer to the geometrical abstration, she tames this sparkling explosion with a great many  black lines; These last ones gag colors, making appear the outlines of known forms, most often the soft curves of the feminine body. But these lines, if they let glimpse silhouettes, also come to break them, splitting them in uncountable brightness. We do not know any more if the artist disrupts these beings or if, with the same patience as the master glaziers, she gathers the pieces of these scattered mirrors, using the lines as them use some lead. Whatever is the choice which she operates between lines and colors, the same tension between creation and destruction releases from her works. But this last one does not take a stand with the one rather than with the other. It is above all the agitation of the world and the strength that livens up to it that this follower of the Taoism tries to offer to the glance.