Emmanuelle Vroelant Art

Painted in April 2024, this vertical 81 × 65 cm linen builds its surface like a chalky wall, thickened with marble powder until it takes on the grain of an old stone. In the upper ri...

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.

Painted in September 2024, this vertical 100 × 80 cm linen canvas builds its acrylic-and-mortar surface like a section of an old wall, chalky, cracked in places, where beiges, pale o...

It is a winter without sadness, the clouds loaded and free to transform, it was the year 2016...

Taking the liberty of painting a type of sky that does not exist, an improbable water color… it is quite enjoyable.

Evanescent memories, softened colours, the breath of passing time… Ned to enter into a pastel color atmosphere, the need to change register between two paintings, as an alternation o...

For my exhibition in Abdijan at the invitation of Professor Dadié, I came there the previous year to make a number of paintings especially on women and their clothes.

A broad circular form, pale and translucent, occupies the lower left of the canvas — an almost perfect circle, ringed by a thin outline that barely stands out from the ground. Along ...

Emmanuelle Vroelant approaches Forgetting with disarming candour: « forgetting words, names… it's so annoying! » The painting starts from this very concrete irritation to build a broader reflection on memory and what it leaves behind. The canvas's relief becomes the very site of this reflection: « the relief is worked like an inscription of memory, and covering it all with China paper...

Blue, white, and gray answer one another across the entire surface of the canvas, forming an atmosphere in which one senses, without it ever being clearly depicted, a coastline batte...

Promise of Coolness unfolds in a dense canopy of greens and blue, like branches seen in a slight low-angle view, their foliage seeming in places almost to lift away from the canvas’s...

The enclosed beauty that can no longer give the measure of its potential.

The elongated horizontal format unfolds across three clearly distinguishable panels. Vast swirls of grey, blue and ochre sweep across the entire composition with no fixed point of re...

A dense mist of water-greens, silvery grays, and off-whites envelops the entire surface of the canvas, with no light source cutting through the composition — a choice fully embraced ...

Dignity and fragility, pathetic and admirable.

Painted in an intimate square format, What Remains is one of the gravest canvases in Emmanuelle Vroelant's work. « The layout of this piece came to me during a night, probably in re...

The long horizontal band format unfolds a palette of milky whites and blues, punctuated on the left by a few touches of yellow and soft green, and further to the right by delicate vi...

In this artwork, the artist captures a poignant moment inspired by an unexpected encounter with a dear friend of her mother. Technically: This posture reveals a certain vulnerabili...

I worked on the idea of all that we bury, deep inside ourselves or that Nature buries with its force and violence.

"Chinese mythology" It makes me think of dragons, oxidized that I see in the multitude of temples of South-West Asia to temples. I associate the deep reds of the pillars and fra...

The canvas sets a vast, cream and sand-coloured expanse — almost luminous, finely veined with grey — against a broad, black, charcoal-like band that occupies the entire lower part of...

In March 2022, just a few weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine, Cherished Liberty carries the immediate imprint of current events in Emmanuelle Vroelant’s work. The title alon...

The sorrow leads the withdrawal on oneself, I staged the scarlet dress and the hair to accentuate the feminine side.

The title is enough on its own… tonic color chords.

Against a pale, almost immaculate ground, though crossed by broad ochre and gold veils in its upper half, The Unexpected lets burst forth, at the center and toward the bottom, a clus...

Faces emerge gently from a pale, cracked ground, as if surfacing out of a mist or a shared memory. None is given an age or an origin: children, adults, and elderly people stand side ...

"Persever" I have always been fascinated by frigates and adventurous sailors who confront the unknown and the elements I always thinks of the wind and the sea. This painting expres...

"The call of the Minotaure" I wanted to express the force at stake which can upset the already unstable balances of our world. This anxiety is reflected in the occupation of the spa...

Perplexity Abstract Painting, Acrylic mixed media on Linen Canvas, 2026, 81x65cm Emmanuelle Vroelant painted this canvas amid what she describes as a climate of war, “predators” and...

Emmanuelle Vroelant started this painting after watching a news report on the National Assembly, struck by a cacophony in which egos jostled together, each claiming their own truth. ...

"Sentinels" Abstract Acrylic Mixed media on Linen Canvas, 2026, 100X80cm Emmanuelle Vroelant starts from a recurring observation along the Breton coastline: the sand on the beaches ...

“A wind blows across this canvas,” says Emmanuelle Vroelant, just as one is currently blowing across the world’s atmosphere: the sense that the markers of otherness, courtesy and eth...

Painted in parallel, Fantasy 1 and Fantasy 2 naturally form a duo in Emmanuelle Vroelant’s eyes: “I find that these two paintings, made in parallel, form a duo.” Presented side by si...

Fine, rust-colored, almost metallic lines cross the surface diagonally over a white, powdery ground, intersecting here and there like the fault lines of a cracked wall. Impact draws...

In the Open Air unfolds a square almost entirely absorbed by light. Marble powder carves the canvas with relief and striations, giving the dominant white a rough, almost mineral text...

I have, at one point in mylife, practiced art therapy, blue is the color of refocusing, one must be centered and have a positive relationship to oneself to be benevolent.

The sobriety of the lines of this body and the incisive look made me want to fix it on the canvas.

Emmanuelle Vroelant belongs to “a generation that believed the Western world was moving toward an open awareness of diversity and acceptance of others.” And yet, she observes with bi...

After painting Fantasy 1, Emmanuelle Vroelant felt she needed “a companion with very solar forms that bring to mind a presence charged with calm and benevolent authority.” It is this...

“I always have the vague to the soul in time between dogs and wolves, at the loss of light. At 89 years old my mother told me that her great childhood fear was to know if the sun wou...

Insomnia is almost a nocturnal landscape: a deep blue ground, nearly black at the edges, built up thickly with marble powder, lets a luminous, near-white disc emerge on the right, oc...

14-10-24 asserts its matter before its image. Across the canvas's 120 x 100 cm, acrylic laden with marble powder carves, on the right, vertical grey and ochre furrows that streak the...

Painted in November 2024, this square 80 × 80 cm canvas sets two clearly distinct masses of matter against each other across a broad white void: on the left, a beige and ochre expans...

With Free Thoughts, Emmanuelle Vroelant tackles her own method head-on: « exploring forms, materials and relief is a far more complex challenge than it appears », she warns from the ...

The second panel in the series, this large square format shifts register: the vivid red of the first painting gives way to a dark, almost grave red. « I worked on the depth and gravi...

Rain and Sun captures a very Breton alternation: that of « winter days with their alternation of damp greyness and rays of sunshine », as Emmanuelle Vroelant describes it. A climate ...

At 120 centimetres high and only 40 wide, Moving Forward adopts a narrow, blade-like vertical format that forces the eye to climb, literally, from the bottom of the canvas to the top...

At the centre of the canvas, an almost circular form asserts itself: an amber, structured core crossed by a single, paler shaft of light sliding diagonally across it. This golden mas...

Warning's vertical format heightens the sense of imbalance between a turbulent sky — almost ablaze with dark reds, blacks and browns — in its upper third, and a calmer horizon below,...

The harshness of this competitive world where to be the first is the priority goal.

Turquoise unfolds, in a vertical format, a range of deep blues darkening almost to black at the edges, the better to let a white and turquoise light burst forth at its heart with an ...

The title is enough on its own… tonic color chords.

Chronos' metaphor has always impressed me with his violence and sends me back to the time that passes without giving a gift.

The algae flowing in the transparency of the water. The sense that they’ve been there for so long....

Two globes overlap at the centre of an earthy, finely cracked ground, criss-crossed with linear fissures radiating out like dried veins: one, silvery and milky, its surface speckled ...

Against an intense black ground, blocks of warm color — ochre, burnt orange, terracotta — arrange themselves almost like an architectural composition, punctuated by a woven texture t...

The question mark in the title already says everything about the doubt inhabiting Future?. A grey and golden sphere, its surface worked like weathered metal, occupies the centre of t...

Return of an exhibition in Beijing… An interpretation of the sensations felt…

Joy, the possibility of trusting myself, but remaining flexible. The anguish of time passing too quickly and old age…

The force that lifts the water and the blast of foam