Cécile Filipe

Cécile Filipe, Portuguese on her father’s side and French on her mother’s, was nine years old when her parents left Portugal to settle permanently in France. She had to abandon Lisbon, her environment and her friends, to find herself in a country she knew nothing about. It was a fundamental break that would change her life. Beyond words, she draws and paints. As a child, she transcended this rupture by filling notebooks with drawings, paintings and symbols. Throughout her years in France, she never ceased to rediscover, through her work, the light and shadow of the river, the skies, the wind, the smells and the narrow streets of her white hometown, never to be forgotten. Cécile Filipe trained as an interior architect at the Camondo school in Paris and worked for twenty years as the head of a design office. Painting is a necessity, because it allows her to expel her emotions in a constant inner and aesthetic search for light, depth and balance. Her paintings combine abandon and poetry in a highly structured architectural composition. The result is an impression of strength and fragility. Her work takes the form of sequels and series in instinctive colour phases, with the omnipresence of black from which light emerges. A search for simplicity and simplicity with a feeling of constant uncertainty. The great French painter Pierre Soulages, a painter of outrenoir, once said “It’s what I do that teaches me what I’m looking for”, so his paintings take shape on a blank canvas, without sketches or preconceived ideas, the story weaving itself as the material settles on the canvas. Between abstract and figurative, it’s only by chance that some will see landscapes, boats and ropes. A multi-disciplinary artist, she works with acrylic paint on canvas, but also uses collage, ink and watercolour for her works on paper. Her tools are unconventional: scrapers, sponges, rags, twigs, stones and her hands to lay down and work the material. After exhibiting in Paris, she is now represented by NOONPOWELL FINE ART in London, REDSHEEP Gallery in New York and LE CACTUS BLEU in France. She is a member of THE SCREAMING ART GROUP, a group of 60 international artists. She regularly takes part in art fairs and temporary exhibitions. Her work is sold all over the world. She now devotes all her time to painting, in the peace and quiet of her studio in Varennes-sur-Loire.Spoken languages ​​:English, French
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Proposed activities:Temporary exhibitions