ELIORA BOUSQUET'S COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS

'Art is the way to feel, to love and to interpret the heartbeat of the universe.'
Roch Carrier

7 series of artworks
  

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

The abstract painting collection "EVANESCENCE" is inspired by Eliora Bousquet's passion for the sky, stars, and the universe's perfect beauty and mystery. It represents the afterlife as the artist imagines and often dreams it: a timeless space where beauty rhymes with eternity, leaving room for imagination, the mother of inspiration and creativity.

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'Let us dream of evanescence and abandon ourselves to the crazy beauty of things.'
Okakura Kakuzo

18 series of artworks
  

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

Eliora Bousquet's 'EVANESCENCE' collection is made up of eighteen series of paintings on the theme of the wind, in its spirittual sense, which we know 'blows where it wants'. In this collection, the sea represents the existence we have to cross, sometimes without seeing the horizon, often against winds and tides. The very frequent vertical movements symbolize the need to free oneself from weightlessness, from matter, to access more spirituality. The 'EVANESCENCE' collection is a romantic ode to life, in its poetical sense: a life which is all the more beautiful for being ephemeral.

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'Lightness of a bird that does not need to sing to own the forest - not even one tree.'
Christian Bobin

4 series of artworks
   

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

Eliora Bousquet's collection "POETIC FICTIONS" is imbued with a thirst for freedom. Comprising of four series of paintings, it depicts stylized seascapes, birds, and sailboats, seeking with poetry and lightness to escape the confines of a certain reality.

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'You have to see abstract painting as you listen to music, feel the emotional interiority of the work without looking for an identification with any figurative representation. What is important, therefore, is not to see the abstract, is to feel it.'
Gerard Schneider

7 series of artworks
   

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

The 'CHROMATIC FANTASIAE' painting collection is inspired by the creativity and choppy rhythm of jazz music. Eliora Bousquet compares this collection to a musical score where colors, like notes, swing on the canvas. On this score, each color has its place and, combined with other colors, a particular role to play in creating harmony.

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'The artist must not copy nature but take the elements of nature and create a new item.'
Paul Gauguin

5 series of artworks
  

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

Matter is life itself. That is why Eliora Bousquet's collection 'NATURESSENCES' prominently features thick, knife-worked layers of color. Stylized nature is omnipresent in these paintings, as it represents the mother of all things and the essence of life, giving the collection its name: 'NATURESSENCES.'

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'To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.'
William Blake

7 series of artworks
  

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

According to George Braque, 'emotion does not add, nor does it initiate: it is the seed, and the work is the blooming'. Creation = Blossoming. A theme that frequently appears in the work of the artist Eliora Bousquet is the quest for the lost paradise, a paradise of abstract flowers populated by birds. Her semi-figurative collection 'RENAISSANCE' represents an idealized Eden. In this garden located between two seas (the one above and the one below, following the separation described in Genesis), flowers mix with marine corals to create an eternal spring filled with hope: that of a new beginning, a rebirth.

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'A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.'
Paul Cezanne

10 series of artworks
  

THE STORY BEHIND THE COLLECTION

Painting has always attracted Eliora Bousquet due to the infinite variety of colors that can be created. These colors, powerfully evocative, provoke extraordinary emotions and sensations that unleash the imagination and, simply put, free the mind! By mixing colors together, with water or other liquid or solid elements, sometimes unexpected results are achieved. The paint becomes uncontrollable, takes shape, and lives on its own, creating a form of magic, of alchemy, which is why the collection is named 'AQUALCHEMY'. The use of blown watercolor and liquid ink pays homage to two of the artist's most beloved fundamental elements: air and water, which are at the source of this abstract and experimental collection.

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