Kali Dennis | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

From a very young age, Kali instinctively draws. She is passionate about the world of Arts: everything that is in the field of expression. Music, theater, dance, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry as well as the plant world and botany are all areas that inspire her. She studied Literature at the University and then took courses in Fine Arts. For Kali everything is not a pretext for inspiration, nothing is established. It is a set of forms which arouses in her a desire and which leads her to creation. It can be a staging of characters, a portrait or even a distancing from reality. \The essential is to bring something which is not of the field of the explanation but of that of the feeling. Everything is in the expression and the game of chance that brings it. \Painting is like a relay for the artist, she tries to make immortal the things that touch her. Kali does not paint in a process of seduction but in a process of truth. She puts in her paintings all her temperament, her singularity and especially her humor. She elaborates her painting herself on the basis of pigments in the state of powder which she dilutes with a binder, then she uses the brush and sketches her work by scraping the fresh paint. This technique allows her to create her own tints and her own materials. The rest of the painting takes shape as the strokes and flat areas of color are juxtaposed.\n Kali proposes to stage life. The characters who compose in turn a painting then another are like actors. She takes pleasure in the fact that they surprise her. She brings out emotions through shapes, gestures and colors. She doesn't always know where it leads her and she likes to lose herself in painting. For Kali, it is almost a golden rule to forget herself in painting.