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Sylvie Silvy | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Sylvie Silvy
  • France
Sylvie Silvy was born in Paris in 1952. From a young age the artist had a ""singular"" taste for drawing and painting. In the 60’s her artistic sensibility was already pushing her into museums. She remembers clearly the Etienne Delessert (Swiss artist of the twentieth-twenty-first centuries) exhibit at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and its contribution to the direction of her creativity. Enthusiastic parents gave her early access to children’s art workshops. Later, the young Sylvie would let her passion for art become her personal and professional motor. And so she earned a degree in visual arts, in parallel with attending public classes at the Louvre School. She admires a countless number of artists and focuses on those who, in their own way, were able to purify and find the right lines to recreate the essence of a subject. After graduation, Sylvie flourished for several years as a craftsman. However, she resumed her studies to tackle illustration and graphics. Her 3D work brings her openings in the perception that we can have of a scene. She exercises this, for example, by turning the setting or finding the right angle. The artist bases her work on the memory of places and environments. She lets images come to her, often triggered by words, places visited or simple ""work"" in daydreaming about a theme. Each of these fragments resonates with her memories and is charged with emotions. Therefore her creations are somewhat like illustrations of an inner story. Sylvie usually paints her backgrounds in red. This ""underlying blood"" is the living element of her canvas. She then works mainly in acrylics, to which she likes to add mortar, sand or various materials to create volume, playing with light and textures according to the subject. The artist is particularly fond of the sea, rivers, forests and places of transition such as a window, a bridge or a dock that lead to unknown landscapes. She also finds inspiration in the poetry of Folon’s canvases (Belgian artist of twentieth - twenty-first centuries). Sylvie Silvy makes each canvas a cocoon suitable for dreams and invites us to dwell on her landscapes to enjoy a moment of rest and quiet.

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