Amicale

Exhibition: If today we are convinced of the importance of protecting nature, it is essential for Mathilde de Seroux, as an artist, to highlight the Beauty that emerges from the simplest and most natural scene to encourage, each on their own scale, to become aware of the richness of our environment. It therefore seems obvious to her to paint animal interactions in order to raise awareness of the beauty of the nature that surrounds us in the poetry and humor of the small daily scenes that animals can offer us.

Biography: Mathilde de Seroux is a 32-year-old painter, former agricultural engineer, who lives in Sologne (45 -France). It was while doing an internship with the portrait painter François Legrand in 2019 that she discovered oil painting like a thunderbolt, a medium that has fascinated and amazed her ever since. At this Master of classical style, she learned this technique in an immense thirst for learning. Passionate about nature and drawing from an early age, she then specialized in animal art and found her inspiration largely in the daily scenes of rural Solognote. Today she plays with the classicism of oil painting by working with ethereal and blended backgrounds for a lighter finish. The subjects of her paintings are often comical encounters between animals or moments taken from life, precious and inimitable moments that nature offers us, a subtle dosage of comedies and poetry. Not confined to canvas, she cuts in wood then paints animal silhouettes in acrylic. These installations, faithful to her talents, reproduce the perfect attitude of the animals represented. Looking at them one could believe oneself in their natural environment. Echoing the uniqueness of her paintings, a limited series of reproductions have been produced from her first 11 woodblock originals; limiting itself to a production of 18 to 50 copies in order to preserve a certain artistic value (these are prints on wood made in a workshop in Paris.) It is also part of a logic of personalization and produces many canvases or silhouettes painted to order according to everyone's desires.