Biography
Marie de Valon truly lives in the veins of her works where her inner life is projected.
The spiritual in continuity with the sensual.
In his sculptures, it is the earth that speaks, it is the Subject deep within itself that makes reality.
In his touches of color there are so many jubilant pigments, dazzling bursts that set the canvas ablaze.
His living art – in constant metamorphosis – is thus in permanent dialogical posture and holistic embrace.
Isabelle de Montgolfier
Marie gives herself up without fear.
In this recent interview, Marie de Valon talks about her artistic life from her studio in Visan, a small village in Provence in France.
Discover his work and his thoughts on art.
The Life of The World In Metamorphosis
Marie de Valon’s paintings and sculptures embody the life of the world in metamorphosis, that of bodies and souls. The artist represents the movement of being, in the alternation of doubts and tranquility, that of nature in the variation of the seasons, finding shapes and colors, modulating the intensities of tones. She found her writing of life, in the truth of contradictions.
The world is vast, the recesses of the human soul unfathomable, but the artist’s intuition can, through the intensity of her perception, of her patient or impatient exploration, pull her out of confusion, and tell her interior journey through shapes, colors that are specific to it.
Beautiful, intense, the tree trunk retained in its solid column truth of a reddish brown where black writings are inscribed. The marks of passing time do not alter the strength and majesty. The spirit of the artist seems perfectly tuned to this sign of nature that she has chosen and painted.
In terracotta or bronze, the artist’s sculptures magnify the body and feelings. Marie de Valon looks, questions the nature of which man is the essential living thing. She restores balance in her work by bringing man closer to his environment, showing through shapes and colors the interferences, the resemblances. She feels part of a single, and same family, that of the living which throbs with feelings, emotions, sap and blood, rooting, uprooting, shadow and light.
Nicole de PONTCHARRA