Marie-Caroline Fraboni

Painting is an exercise in visualizing my different inner states, my thoughts on the world and about the others. It is a magnificent space for transforming everything that "nourishes » me : my readings, meetings, philosophical themes, music... everything is found in my paintings.

I am the one who knows the meaning of certain lines, certain curves, the colors… why they meet, constrain, arise or disappear. My paintings are like thought-images. I write about my works to convey meaning, but whoever looks at my painting will recreate their own interpretation: it will be a unique encounter. The place of painting is a magical place of transformations, of meeting with oneself and of transmission : creation is so moving, when it appears. And the need to paint, which is felt strongly physically or deeply in the hand, the arm... until it becomes essential.

"Saying with colors" is also a weapon of peace. “Any woman can have access to the Rio Abajo Rio, that river under the river. It will be achieved through meditation, dancing, writing, painting, prayer, song, active imagination, or any activity requiring a different state of consciousness. It is because she desires and seeks something that she discerns out of the corner of her eye that she will find herself in this world-between-the-worlds.

" Women who run with wolves ”, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, p 53, The Pocket Book, 2020.

I practice watercolor with more or less water, in a more or less spontaneous research. I can't cover / hide with watercolor paint, it's like the truth has to come through. Water is the common thread of my artistic work: the dosage of water which dilutes the watercolor pigments, inspiration from old prints by Japanese masters on the theme of the nature and the human. I make a dreamlike and personal representation of it. The ocean wave then carries with it poetry, emotions of colors ... its movements speak of plant nature, the earth and changes. Water, sea and ocean are a constant source of inspiration in my life. I draw from it anxieties, fear and at the same time fascination. My fear of the depths springs back, and the nature nourishes me with its flowers, vegetation and trees. I practice describing its paradoxes with my brushes.

I use watercolor painting, brushes, easels, thick 300gr / m2 paper in a format of 50cm by 65cm, and 1m40 by 1m. I don't do pencil drawings, no sketches. I only use my brushes. I also use oil painting on canvas measuring 50cm by 70cm at 1m40 by 1m. I work with a professional framer for my watercolors/oil paintings which are varnished ( powerful anti-UV fixation that does not alter the rendering of the work: non-yellowing, water and light resistant).

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