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Françoise Pétrovitch, a room of her own

2022-12-01T06:28:13.267Z


A determined artist, she never ceased to amaze, from her large ink washes, representing Saint Sebastian, to her series of languid young people in parks like contemporary recumbent figures. This woman of character, settled in Normandy, shuts herself up with delight in her studio, a place...


My brand new workshop is in Verneuil-sur-Avre in Normandy, where I have been living for three years.

From my window, we only see the stone wall of the house, a mineral and inert view.

I wanted a very quiet workshop.

The light comes from above, from the east.

It is a kind of box with a loophole bordered in black, like a painting, a trompe-l'oeil, a monk's cell or a prison cell.

In painting, what interests me more and more is the question of time.

Looking at these stones placed on top of each other, I see an accumulated time.

But very alive because there is nothing equal in the forms.

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I am usually alone in this place.

And I like it.

I don't put on music.

It's very clean, very tidy, very white, I'm quite obsessive.

This is my painting studio.

Isolating the painting gives it a special status.

The drawing one is elsewhere in the house, I have another one in the Parisian suburbs.

They are not giant...

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Source: lefigaro

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