Charlotte Culot

In my artist’s toolbox there are gouaches that I make with pigments; paper; glue, and scissors. Working with gouache I find myself seduced by its density and opaqueness, its almost immediate luminosity. Assembled they find their rightful place in a “cosmos” (order). In trying to create a free space, structured, open and complete; the colour allows me to move forwards to share a source of Energy. I construct my painting like architecture. Beneath the seemingly ordered forms there is a creative “chaos”: rough outlines and strokes cast “at random”. This will then be partially or totally covered by coloured paper.

Put together, they will find their place in a "Cosmos" (order). Micro or macro formats: the analysis does not matter in the work, the color advances and shares a throbbing heart, a source of Energy. In her still-life paintings the white and beige shades spread with a knife put the materials in the spotlight (gesso, plaster, granular cement ...). These paintings spend a more intimate part of the pictorial world of CHC.

Alongside her work as a painter, Charlotte has created a carpet collection entitled "RHIZOMES". These are made of very high quality materials. The wool, silk and linen are worked with the hand knotted technique. The carpets are published by "RHIZOMES" in limited series and exclusively. Several formats are available. The particularity of these rugs is that they can also be presented on the wall as a tapestry or a painting. "RHIZOMES" is placed in this little niche of artist's CARPET and proposes her creations as works of art.