CACHAM Catherine Champeyrol

Catherine Champeyrol, aka CACHAM, is a painter. What happens to color when we close our eyes? This exploration of color sensations with closed eyelids has nourished my inspiration since childhood.
In my color laboratory, I develop unique, intense and radiant shades, using interfering pigments, mother-of-pearl, metal foils, lacquers and varnishes.
My universe is nourished by an intimate and universal experience: facing the sun with my eyes closed.
I play with perceptions through the repetition of a simple shape: the circle. With this shape, the gaze plunges into the infinitely small or soars into the infinitely large.
I compose sensory abstractions full of transparencies and brilliance, with superimposed layers of fine materials. I make forms levitate, I express a colorful jubilation.
My works convey a vibrant energy that awakens the memory of light and the universal joy of color.