Emma Godebska

Soft red 1 (Abstract Painting)

2023

EMMA GODEBSKA (b. 1976, France) I live and work in Nimes, south of France. Born in an artistic family, I studied Applied Arts in London, where I lived for many years. My training and my work experience in the Parisian luxury world of fashion led me to work on materials, textures and colours, and to build a reflection around time, body, and memory. The last few years, I have been exploring a path where the quest for the essence of painting passes through a purified gesture and a minimal pictorial language. There is a need to centre on the Here and Now, to capture a light, a feeling, a moment. I work on a white surface, usually leaving the background pure, happily playing with the interaction of its texture with the paint. Colour is created by mixing paints, pigments, inks, playing with the paint dilution, exploiting its transparency effects, or its pigment accumulations. I try to emphasize the fluidity of the material and look in the gesture for a balance between tension and slackening, concentration and spontaneity, in order to reach an equilibrium in the composition. The result is floating in a white space, like a calligraphic sign. The superimposition of it’s elements and the contrast between the density and the transparency give a sculptural dimension to the composition. In their formal simplicity, these art works are an invitation into a spiritual journey. EDUCATION 2002 BA-Hons in Applied Arts and Jewellery, Sir John Cass School of Art, London, UK 2000 BTEC-HND in Applied Arts and Jewellery, Sir John Cass School of Art, London 1998 Art Foundation, Sir John Cass School of Art, London, United Kingdom