Clémentine Daudier Art
I paint abstract landscapes and seascapes to celebrate the beauty, the fragility and the contemplative benefits of Nature through the use of mixed media techniques.
I am a French self-taught mixed media abstract artist based in Munich, Germany.
I come from an artistic family, and being born in Paris I have had the opportunity as a small child to benefit from the wonders this city has to offer.
As we moved to Sierra Leone when I was 7, I have a diverse background: I had to learn to live far from anything Parisian and to enjoy being mostly on my own in a remote, yet beautiful place.
The nostalgy of this lost childhood paradise is definitely an inspiration for me, in terms of colours, textures, the importance of nature and the ocean.
Over the years, life has taken me to many places, to a teaching career I hadn't planned to embrace, and to motherhood.
Even though I love to share, give, help and support others, I have realised that I needed to apply these principles to myself in order to feel fulfilled and to fight stress and exhaustion.
Painting is the way I have found to get into a meditative healing state, and to share my love for Mother Nature and beauty.
I feel a deep connection to the colour blue. It's the colour of the sky, water, many stones, flowers, birds and fish, and it has many wonderful hues, whether natural or man-made. It is a primary colour, and it symbolises spirituality and inner peace. I cannot imagine painting without using any blue!
Yet I think blue needs some contrasting colour to enhance its beauty, and I often used gold or earthy reds and browns to that effect.
These are also colours found in nature, and they allow me to integrate this conceptual aspect in my work.
I love to play with textures that give my paintings an organic feel, and the combination of textures and colours is my hommage to the beauty of our planet. But I also see my artistic work as part of my personal commitment to being more environmentally conscious and putting forward the necessity to protect the earth that hosts and nourishes us.
Painting is for me a full sensory experience in which I can express my feelings, engage physically and spiritually, it allows me to get lost in time and space, being one with the action of creating.
