COMBINING THE INFINITELY BIG AND THE INFINITELY SMALL
A painter with a demanding style, Jane Puylagarde's monumental monochrome works reinvent the art of the drip. A new pointillism that demands patience and meticulousness.
ITINERARY OF AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST
Some souls are born to be artists. And Jane Puylagarde is no exception. After studying law and political science, the young woman turned to fashion design, which brought her her first success with a ready-to-wear brand. But it was her face-to-face encounter with an Indian ceramist during a trip to Mexico that revealed her true destiny. With her, she discovered the art of pointillism, in which small drops of paint are placed side by side to reveal overall patterns. It's a meticulous, almost obsessive process, and one to which Jane will give her letters of nobility.
THE POWER OF REINVENTION
Breaking free from the tradition of the paintbrush, Jane Puylagarde reinvents the way she lays paint flat on canvas, using the tips of hairpins from her buns. With a precise awareness of the execution of a preliminary drawing, she deposits her drops of acrylic paint to give life to majestic works drawing their inspiration from movement, dance, the cosmos or nature. It can take up to twenty successive layers to form a single drop. Never before has a precise, repetitive gesture so successfully combined pleasure and the desire for perfection.
THE MIRACLE OF DROPS THROUGH LIGHT
Travelling the world, Jane Puylagarde's monochrome works adorn the most beautiful private and public spaces. This popularity is undoubtedly due to their pure, ever-changing aesthetic. Thanks to the play of light and shadow that animates them throughout the day, the artist's canvases are enriched by a succession of new lives. Whether under natural light or night-time illumination, the shadows on the untouched parts of the canvases form constantly renewed creative movements. A sort of brush generating fleeting shadows that cross, lengthen or thicken according to the structure of the drops. What's your favorite moment to be hypnotized by Jane Puylagarde's work?
