Patricia Chatelain

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Just listen to her:
"Childhood, the island of Martinique, vegetation’s exuberant colors, the blue of the Caribbean Sea, skin color, black with copper tones...
Studies in Paris, gray sky, the full range of gray: mouse, slate, zinc, lead mine, pigeon or dove...
First trip to Italy, Rome, ocher walls faded by the sun and time, fragments of textures and colors exalted by the light...
The red and ocher walls, yellow ocher, holes, cracks, graffiti...
To dive in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, multicolored parrot fish, red grouper, blue ink from the ocean depths...
Venice, coated roses eaten by chemical vapor from Marghera refineries...
Jordan, violet tones of the Petra wall...
Jerusalem, the Sinai, the warm colors of the desert...
Ivory Coast, mahogany, black coffee, emerald green forests, colorful and odiferous markets, bright colors of wrappers, patchwork cities, flayed, mold... "
The work of Patricia CHATELAIN, born in 1963, is fully dedicated to the revelation of world’s beauty; she paints the walls and landscapes of her memory voluptuously. She is an abstract expressionist for whom the emotional power of color and texture play a premier role, more than gesture.
The view of the historian of art

Perfectly at ease in the world of creation and without inhibition, Patricia CHATELAIN juggles total abstraction and suggested representation, often informed by the titles. Through the use of different materials (pigments, acrylic, marble powder, sand, lime…) and color, she recreates sensations experienced during her travels: untouched nature, marks left by time on a subject, the sun meeting a wall, imperfections due to wear, heat, smells, sensations… It does not reproduce an impression but expresses the immediate echo of the soul of this impression. Thus, the pictorial event is not an arduous searching, a past meeting or event reconstituted in a narrative way, but an immediate impression, without the slightest distance. We recognize the soul of the thing, or the soul of one who has seen it, the essence of a human experience. Each of her paintings is an invitation to dive into a new world and participate directly in this live and recreated reality, as total phenomenological experience, adding to it our own sensitivity.

Elise LASSALLE
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Vert thanaïs"
Pigments et acrylique sur toile
Hauteur 120 cm Longueur 100 cm
Prix: 2 900 € (PC002)
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Roma 2000-2003"
Technique mixte sur bois
Hauteur 80 cm Longueur 50 cm
Prix: 1 300 € (PC001)
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Ortobotanico 2005"
Technique mixte sur bois
Hauteur 30 cm Longueur 30 cm
Prix: 880 € (PC003)
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Roma 1998"
Pigments, acrylique et poudre de marbre sur toile
Hauteur 80 cm Longueur 65 cm
Prix: 1 320 €
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Grand Lahou"
Technique mixte sur bois
Hauteur 80 cm Longueur 50 cm
Prix: 1 300 € (PC004)
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Patricia CHATELAIN
"Grand Bassam"
Technique mixte sur bois
Hauteur 30 cm Longueur 30 cm
Prix: 880 € (PC005)