Emmanuelle Vroelant Art

With Somewhere, in a wide horizontal format, Emmanuelle Vroelant steps away from her usual references — Brittany, light, the material of everyday life — to summon a more narrative im...

Cloak and Dagger begins with a memory of the movie theatre. Emmanuelle Vroelant tells it simply: "Seeing The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo at the cinema makes me wan...

On an elongated, almost panoramic format, a vast pale territory — tender green, cream, mist — occupies nearly the whole canvas, while in the upper right corner a dense mass of intens...

The beauty of the body in opposition to violence.

Emmanuelle Vroelant starts from a “sense of powerlessness in the face of everything the future holds for us: a damaged planet, a war in space.” This initial unease reads in the large...

I often think of Japanese screens and I really like the scanning of triptychs. I wanted to suggest a poetic atmosphere, a little strange that we see at the seaside in the heat mists ...

Formation Process unfolds a canvas saturated with matter: marble powder and mortar carve a thick texture across the whole surface. A dense cluster of colours occupies the upper centr...

This canvas slept for twenty years in Emmanuelle Vroelant’s storage, from the time when she painted still lifes. Found again by chance, it suddenly “spoke” to her: she altered a few ...

“It takes a great deal of courage to remain serene and accept this stage of life. In our society, we struggle to see its beauty, but we can at least salute its dignity.” These words ...

A long, panoramic format stretches the canvas like a strip of dune seen very close up. The material, acrylic and marble powder, takes on a sandy, scraped, almost crumbly texture, in ...

"Underground Railroad" C. Whitehead’s book upset me, his extremely sober writing speaks of the unbearable suffering, of courage, of those slaves ...

Having the good fortune to live in this beautiful Breton country of North Finistère I can walk along the coast to recharge my batteries

All the battles, the bloodshed for so many reasons.

bronze figurative sculpture numbered from 1 to 8 "Afghan" 19x9x7cm send in wood crate Emmanuelle Vroelant traveled to Afghanistan in the 1970s, she knew a proud and modern country th...

"Doubt" bronze figurative sculpture limited at 8 pieces 16x16x16cm left n° 3/8 certificate emmanuelle vroelant in 2009 Emmanuelle Vroelant decided to start scu...

"Elegance of trees in winter" a moment of joy. The relationship of colors and movement of algae in transparency is at the origin of this atmosphere, but I put everything in suspensio...

I want to use vegetable fibres. I needed a large format to have freedom of action. I started with the flexibility and mixing of curves for the fulfillment of creative pleasure. And,...

Something ethereal, little substance, but breath.

Period of staggering imagination between global warming, COVID, the war in Ukraine... My optimism appeals to sunny yellow flowers. My pessimism sees a forest without perspective, a b...

Emmanuelle Vroelant speaks of "an impulse that drove me, in just a few gestures" — and that is exactly what this canvas conveys, perhaps the most spontaneous in the series. A great t...

This painting is born of a true “visual, sensual encounter” between two sheets of paper “very different in their structure, their colour and their origin,” says Emmanuelle Vroelant....

Emmanuelle Vroelant wanted to paint "something strong" — and the canvas conveys that from the first glance. It rises vertically like a trunk in full growth, carried by a brilliant gr...

For me frimas is a rather poetic term, this word evokes the frosted powder on the trees, the soft light of a pretty morning very early in winter. It is a feeling of freshness and pl...

With Zen Pebble, Emmanuelle Vroelant builds a space of withdrawal. « It's a dreamlike little Zen garden, where everything is calm and smiling, with a benevolent sun », she describes...

Painted in November 2024, this square 100 × 100 cm canvas leaves, across its right half, a white barely textured with marble powder, on which a single black form is inscribed, entire...

A long, panoramic format stretches the canvas like a strip of dune seen very close up. The material, acrylic and marble powder, takes on a sandy, scraped, almost crumbly texture, in ...

The very elongated format of this canvas invites a horizontal reading; Emmanuelle Vroelant depicts a precise moment of the day: « the blue hour — that's what we call this magical mom...

The Inner Cosmos begins with a thoroughly contemporary fascination: that of the images sent back by the Hubble telescope. « Fascinated by the images Hubble sends us of the cosmos, I ...

The Tower Wall begins with a recent visit: "I visited a castle in the Cotentin, in ruins but with an intact tower," recounts Emmanuelle Vroelant. "I love setting foot on the first st...

With this format nearly twice as wide as it is tall (60 × 120 cm), Emmanuelle Vroelant changes register. "After a shocking image of the wall in Arizona, I urgently needed to transpos...

Kimono assembles shards of red, burnt orange and sienna, cut like fragments of heavy, torn silk, laid over a base of gold leaf that evokes a length of fabric or a wide obi. On the ri...

A vast, pale, luminous space occupies the centre of the canvas — white, cream, a very pale blue barely perceptible — bordered, at the top and sides, by clusters of darker matter: bla...

Coming back from summer, Emmanuelle Vroelant says she “still wanted to convey [her] joy of transparent water, the well-being of the sun, the light side of life in the garden, on the ...

A golden disc, almost solar in its very matter — metallic deposits, impastos of marble powder that catch the light — rises above a jagged black-and-white ridgeline, where mortar and ...

Everything begins, for Emmanuelle Vroelant, with a deliberate act of restraint: faced with this handmade art paper, made from linen rags at a mill in Brittany, she says she felt no w...

Following an invitation in the Ivory Coast, I get there to prepare the exhibition painting "Street scenery".

Colors of desert, vibrations, the sound of the didgeridoo is disturbing, exotic.

The painting is born of a period of grief recently lived through by Emmanuelle Vroelant, and of loved ones facing serious health difficulties — a context that leads her, in this earl...

"Foam" landscape painting acrylic on linen canvas 30x90cm fascination with the perpetual movement of the wave, the whiteness of the foam

Seen up close, Fresco reads like a section of wall lifted whole: a surface entirely cracked, whitened, on which only a few rare colours surface — as though time had eaten away everyt...

Furnace, motion, saturation, heat

The origin of this painting lies in a very simple, almost anecdotal scene: « I received a video of a small niece, a few months old, reacting to her father's voice, her face lighting ...

"In the Same Time" is a nod to Emmanuel Macron's favorite phrase and a visual testament to my perception of the sluggish atmosphere brought about by the confinement and curfew. I tr...

On a white ground dotted with discreet greys, some twenty cut-out shapes, almost like puzzle pieces, compose this untitled painting. On the left, they stack into a totemic column, a ...

“The Role of Pebbles” unfurls a veritable collection of stones of disparate textures and hues. A mass of deep ultramarine blue dominates the upper part of the canvas, crossed by an a...

Invitée par le ministre ivoirien de la Culture Bernard Dadié à exposer son travail à Abidjan, j'ai réalisé plusieurs peintures sur les femmes et les enfants.

The flesh full of pleasure…

Perharidy, improbable light of a stormy evening.

“Thank you, Almodóvar,” says Emmanuelle Vroelant: the filmmaker’s work has always moved her, and his latest film The Room Next Door suggested to her the idea that one could choose th...

Having the good fortune to live in this beautiful Breton country of North Finistère I can walk along the coast to recharge my batteries.

Swimming in the open sea is a healing, gives a feeling of benefit from April to October, I enjoy entering the cold water of Roscoff and staying there...

While walking in Japan, I spent a long time in a temple contemplating a wall where traces of time created black, grey, beige drawings… This inspired the texture and the atmosphere o...

"Open space 4" After a long walk on the Breton coasts of Finistery in the wind and the sensation of a wild and strong nature, the pleasure of feeling in the natural elements, being ...

"Autumn is coming" Just an ambiance of autumn colours

Emmanuelle Vroelant starts from an observation shared by many: “we’re weighed down, made anxious by the news of what’s happening in the world.” Facing this weight, she says she felt ...

Nordic Noir unfolds a space inhabited by blue and white. On the left, a dense mass of deep blue, almost black in places, rises like the silhouette of fir trees against snow. At the c...

After a winter walk, “with no particular light,” Emmanuelle Vroelant was struck by the rising greens — lichen and moss taking over every horizontal surface, while the trees still sto...

During a walk in the forest, the shade of the trees suddenly appeared as dark blue in contrast with the reddish heather and the branches.

This canvas's elongated format matches the horizontality of its subject: the Breton foreshore in the depths of winter. « January in Brittany, a peaceful mood of grey and beige, a tru...

A vast, pale, luminous space occupies the centre of the canvas — white, cream, a very pale blue barely perceptible — bordered, at the top and sides, by clusters of darker matter: bla...