Emmanuelle Vroelant Mixed Media

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Furnace, motion, saturation, heat

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Emmanuelle Vroelant painted this canvas amid what she describes as a climate of war, “predators” and “threatening discourse” — a climate of worry and a sense of powerlessness, in whi...

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. ...

Emmanuelle Vroelant starts from a recurring observation along the Breton coastline: the sand on the beaches comes and goes, the dunes subside from one year to the next. Within this ...

“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 ...

Work on the impact of elements on urban structures and organisation. I endeavored to give thickness to the texture that coats and engulfs.

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

In these days of pleasant but disturbing heat, I pay tribute to the foliage of trees on the banks of peaceful rivers. It’s a real comfort to humans.