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WILD HERBARIUM #2 Oil and pastels painting 190 x 156 cm

Creator: Sylvie Peyneau
Offered by: OAK Oneofakind Gallery

Description
Oil and pastels on canvas by Sylvie Peynaud. The theme of wild plants is a fertile ground for observations and sensations, a metaphor.

Herbaria, which are collections of dried and pressed plants, have inspired many artists throughout history. They were often used as reference tools for plant identification, but their aesthetics also attracted artists. Over the centuries, illustrators have created detailed and accurate drawings of plants for herbaria, capturing their beauty and unique botanical features. These illustrations are often considered works of art in themselves, testifying to the richness of plant biodiversity. Today, herbaria continue to inspire artists to create contemporary artworks that explore nature, science, and memory.

“I paint what I breathe… ”
Sylvie Peyneau, who grew up in contact with nature in a village between Bordeaux and the sea, knew how to probe the soul of what surrounds her, to approach it as closely as possible to better reveal their vitality, to move away from it. enough to paint their singularity, their poetry. It is with this just distance, through a subtle balance between figuration and abstraction, that she infuses her painting with the enthusiasm, energy and freedom that make them so powerful. The approach she pursues more particularly on the theme of gardens is a fertile ground for observations and sensations, a metaphor. This nature, which fascinates her, occupies a very special place in her everyday life, through the symbol of passing time, the rhythm of cycles. A Wild Herbarium comes to illustrate an outcome, advocates the beauty of the path traveled, too often set aside for the freshness of young flowers. The Silent Gardens, pebbles under the snow that invite meditation, are an allegory of memory, the white that covers everything, the rocks that stand out and trace a path, a quest. It is not only an aesthetic research, but a work on life through the play of symbols, his secret garden that the artist reveals to us. Sometimes intimate, sometimes monumental, her painting represents for her a risk, a path, an adventure and translates the concrete form of a free, intuitive and curious expression, no longer seeking to achieve a goal but to constantly explore new territories. . Returns from travels, especially those of the African continent which has been crisscrossing for decades, between the initiatory journey, then with the aim of listing materials, textures, architectures, plantations. These indirect traces of the man, whom she then invites to the workshop, sometimes through the imagination…

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	France
Period:	New
Materials:	Oil and pastels on canvas
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2022
Styles / Movements:	Abstract Expressionism, Black & White, Contemporary
News references:	March 2025 - TERRA BOTANICA, OΔK Gallery Toulouse Summer show 2024 - HANGING GARDENS, Royal Manufacture of Montolieu April 2023 - TRAVEL DIARIES, OΔK Gallery Toulouse
Incollect Reference #:	780762