Emmanuelle Vroelant Abstract Paintings

Painting abstract mixed media oversized contemporary With Somewhere, in a wide horizontal format, Emmanuelle Vroelant steps away from her usual references — Brittany, light, the ma...

“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...

The canvas is built from three panels, clearly delineated by fine vertical lines. Horizontal bands of beige, taupe and grey layer over one another like strata of mist, with no clear ...

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...

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...

Abstract painting acrylic on linen Canvas, 50 x 100 cm, 2018 The lower part of the painting is overtaken by a deep, almost blood-like red, rising in long vertical streaks, like den...

"The courage to grow old" Abstract Expressionist, Mixed Media, 120x80cm, 2026 “It takes a great deal of courage to remain serene and accept this stage of life. In our society, we st...

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 ...

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...

Tones of rust and scorched earth cover almost the entire canvas, crossed on the left by a dark, sinuous line made of verdigris oxidation marks linked together like the links of a chain. A warm, almost golden glow emanates from the upper center of the painting. This canvas was born of a harrowing read: Emmanuelle Vroelant evokes Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad...

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

The entire surface of the canvas is covered with crumpled plant fibres, glued down to give the background a fibrous, organic texture close to handmade paper or woven bark. In the upp...

Vitality: Abstract Acrylic Varnish mixed media on Linen Canvas, 120x160cm, 2026 Emmanuelle Vroelant wanted to paint "something strong" — and the canvas conveys that from the first g...

Effusion Abstract Painting in Acrylic Oxydation Varnish, 2010s, 100x100cm Emmanuelle Vroelant speaks of "an impulse that drove me, in just a few gestures" — and that is exactly wha...

The entire right half of the canvas is occupied by a dark, gridded weave, almost wire-mesh-like — bringing to mind barbed wire or a fence — from which long streaks of ochre and gold ...

Something ethereal, little substance, but breath.

Furnace, motion, saturation, heat

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Textures Abstract, Mixed Media Painting, on linen canvas, 80x80cm, 2026 This painting is born of a true “visual, sensual encounter” between two sheets of paper “very different in th...

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...

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 ...

"Equilibre" Mixed Media Artwork, Abstract Style, 2026, 100x100cm Everything begins, for Emmanuelle Vroelant, with a deliberate act of restraint: faced with this handmade art paper,...

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...

abstract "Traces" Traces left by torn-away posters, traces of cultural and political expressions.

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 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...

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 ...

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

“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...

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 ...

“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...

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...

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

The canvas takes up the same palette of blacks, greys and beiges as Stroll 1. Fine white streaks, almost like stalactites of paint, run vertically down from this middle zone, like r...

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...

"Autumn is coming" Just an ambiance of autumn colours

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Nostalgia envelops a large square in pastel tones — cream, blue-grey, muted gold, a few touches of coral. A cloud-like mass occupies the centre of the canvas, as though suspended, w...

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

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 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 ...

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...