Colombo Cécile | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Cécile Colombo has always worked in mixed media. She prepares her canvas with paper, glues colored papers, fabrics, ink and washed-out paint to give a general coloring to her canvas, and once the background is reinvented, she draws on it with Indian ink, walnut stain, colored ink or acrylic. The watercolor colors are enhanced with oil pastels or dry pastels, all these materials give her paintings an atmosphere of fantasy and lightness. Very inspired by the Mediterranean, Cécile takes pictures of details, balconies, fruits, stones and plants that she mixes in her paintings to retranscribe the atmosphere of a place. The suggestion, the material, the detail that seems trivial reveal a pictorial universe very inspired that offers us magical moments. This universe, she also declines it on more usual objects.