EMMA GODEBSKA
EMMA GODEBSKA
I live and work in Nimes, south of France. Born in an artistic family, I studied Applied Arts in London, where I lived for many years. My training and my work experience in the Parisian luxury world of fashion led me to work on materials, textures and colours, and to build a reflection around time, body, and memory.
For those few last years I have been exploring a path where the quest for the essence of painting passes through a purified gesture and a minimal pictorial language. There is a need to centre on the Here and Now, to capture a light, a feeling, a moment.
I work on a white surface, usually leaving the background pure, happily playing with the interaction of its texture with the paint. I create the colour by mixing paints, pigments, inks, playing with the paint dilution, exploiting its transparency effects, or its pigment accumulations.
I try to emphasize the fluidity of the material, and look in the gesture for a balance between tension and slackening, concentration and spontaneity, in order to reach an equilibrium in the composition.
The result is floating in a white space, like a calligraphic sign. The superimposition of its elements and the contrast between the density and the transparency give a sculptural dimension to the composition.
In their formal simplicity, these art works are an invitation into a spiritual journey.
