Valerie Besançon
Oil in motion


Welcome to my creative world!
Inspired and moved by the spectacle of nature, I reinterpret it, give it body, set it in motion with undisguised joy...

"Painting is the immutable mirror of all that the Universe offers us that is most beautiful."
Ylipe
"Color is a power that directly influences the soul"
W. Kandinsky
ABOUT
Who am I?
Originally from Dijon, I divide my time between Vincennes and La Rochelle. Coming from a family of artists, I have been surrounded by music and pictorial art since my early childhood. Dreamy, airheaded, and contemplative of the beauty of nature, I have been passionate about oil painting for 20 years. Nature and abstraction have always guided me. The supports for my inspiration are often photographs that I was able to take myself by chance during a walk. After a period exclusively focused on pictorial research around trees, I became interested in the five elements, first moving water, then air, the cosmos, finally ice and then fire. Today, I am once again exploring the riches that tree bark offers us. My meeting with Pierre Yves Gianini, a contemporary painter from Nogent (1945-2019), marked a turning point in my art, evolving towards more movement, light and colour.
My artistic approach
The genesis of my work is at the crossroads of my explorations and experiments and my pictorial discoveries. Inspired by the beauty of nature, I like to paint movement and offer works full of life. Blue is a color that I like, which represents for me the symbolism of dreams, escape and serenity. My palette is rich, colorful, bright. I let myself be surprised by what emerges and make it evolve, shape it according to what I see appearing, to the point of turning the canvas over several times. I constantly explore different mediums, oil being my favorite, multiplying the universes and pictorial experiences between reality, abstraction and imagination.
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