The painter Anne Moreau will exhibit her works at the Amélie art gallery in Soho, New York, next April. An opportunity for the artist to reflect on the essence of her work, travel.
In February, Anne Moreau settled into what she calls her winter studio within her longhouse, in the heart of the village of Chenommet, in Aunac-sur-Charente. A wood stove in the middle of the room warms the space. Hanging on the wall, some canvases await, suspended in the gaze and desire of the painter. "When I arrive in the studio, I don't know what will happen, I never make a sketch." A work can be born, but another can evolve by adding a touch of color or text. "A canvas continues to live, and it is finished when there is writing and it leaves the studio," says the artist, ten of whose paintings will join the walls of the Amélie gallery in the Soho district of New York next April. It's a significant recognition for Anne Moreau, the great-granddaughter of the official painter Moreau de Tours, who follows in the footsteps of her paternal and maternal ancestors, whose paintings she keeps. "I grew up in this environment. When I was very young, I had a drawing board with gouache," Anne Moreau told CL in 2019. For this artist who pursued Applied Arts, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts, painting is a passage like a journey: "The act of discovery is essential, more than the destination." It mirrors her journey and encounters.