Marie-josé Deroide

Marie-José Deroide primarily works with oil paints, enriched by her background as a visual artist and art historian. Her technique, tinged with Orientalism and dreamlike qualities, oscillates between figuration and expressiveness, combining vibrant colors and delicate lines with flat planes that are sometimes melancholic. The gazes, the vibrant portraits, and nature resonate with a profound humanity. Her painting seeks to convey beauty, universality, and deep emotion, evoking the presence of the other even in the silence of the landscape. She enjoys working on themes in her last six exhibitions, focusing on the Mediterranean in all its aspects, Orientalism, Color, the "Chic Underpinnings" of objects, "Between Sea and Mountain," "The Gaze," "Dialogue between Painting and Photographs by Another Artist," and "Sorrows of Exile." Her creative work is a boundless search for beauty, even in tragedy, such as that of exile, a theme that resonates deeply with her. It's her way of comforting