Marie diane

A Parisian at heart, Marie Diane expresses herself through her multiple creative facets.

Endowed with a refined gesture and eye, this selftaught artist practices drawing and painting. For nearly 20 years, she has been experimenting with very different styles, letting her imagination and talent run wild as she creates. In 2014, Marie Diane exhibited for the first time in a London gallery the GX Gallery where her works met with great success.

She paints, enhances, details sculptures. After several years in England, Marie Diane decided to settle in Paris. In 2020, curious to broaden her creative palette, Marie Diane creates small test drawings in Indian ink.

She visits Parisian fairs, gets inspired and imagines new forms. Little by little, the artist sketches masks and tribal statues, the best way according to Marie Diane to learn and enter this subject which fascinates her., A real bulimic artist, Marie Diane satisfies her thirst for elsewhere by reproducing all the objects she discovers in the books in her library. Her gaze is fed by masks and statues, ancestral customs and primordial rituals. She also listens to African music, watches documentaries and reads a lot in order to immerse herself in this captivating universe. Determined to see beyond the simple aesthetics of these pieces, she wishes to recontextualize them, understand their stories before transcribing them on paper. Very quickly, Marie Diane moves on to large formats.

In June 2021, gallery owner Eric Hertault invites her to exhibit in his gallery during Paris Tribal Fair. This unprecedented dialogue between both arts was a real success. With their disturbing realism, Marie Diane's paintings quickly find their audience. The artist extendsher exhibition there during the Parcours des Mondes in September and at dans les pas du passé

Galerie Mingei, both located in the heart of Paris in the VIth district. The artist also signs the invitation card for the highly anticipatedCToshimasa Kikuchi exhibition at the Musée Guimet (2021).

Marie Diane sees, in ink, a way to go further in creation. She spends many hours on each drawing, from nine to fifteen hours for a large format. The application of Indian ink, a complex play of light and transparency, requires several stages of drying, for a better restitution of depths and volumes, leading the artist to work on several drawings at the same time. Working with Indian ink undeniably offers a new dimension to drawing. Marie Diane likes to challenge herself on different textures. Wood, blade, basketry, leather, the artist always makes sure that the work keeps its relief, its depth, its authenticity.

Meticulous, she observes and analyzes each detail in order to reproduce the essence of each sculpture as accurately as possible. She works from contrasted pictures which help her to ""enter the light and take possession of the object. Marie Diane's drawings offer a new look at extra-Western creation. Her works are a kind of ""zoom"", an invitation to admire the incredible play of light and matter of those pieces. From Africa to Asia, Marie Diane ’s graphic lines seem to have no limits.

As for painting, her other refuge, there is no doubt that we are no longer talking about precision. It is a complete letting go; a timeless and personal interpretation of space. Highlighting direction with colors is her only finality. The eye is quick to detect the permanent research, to put clarity on this agitated painting which is nevertheless dominated by very structured organizations. Marie Diane daringly seeks to master and burst color through various superimpositions with a painter's knife.

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 38 cm

Price: 1.200 euros aRtWORk PReSented By: Eric Hertault

T.:+33 6 15 38 64 81

E.: hertault.eric@gmail.com

W. : www.eric-hertault.com

Rêve profond, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

92 x 73 cm

Price: 2.200 euros aRtWORk PReSented By:

Eric Hertault

T.:+33 6 15 38 64 81

E.: hertault.eric@gmail.com

W. : www.eric-hertault.com