My mission is to explore the relationship between what we see around us and what we experience internally. My work is about translating perceptual states into visual language.

I am particularly interested in creating atmospheres that awake our sense of wholeness. I use blurring effects and expansive fields of colors as well as dynamic strokes to evoke energy, light and interconnectivity.

I draw my inspiration from the many landscapes I encounter, from the windswept coast of Brittany, where I spent my childhood, to the radiant vistas of California, where I now live. My intention is to encourage the observer to ponder what he or she is looking at and invite to dive into the image as if diving within oneself. I like to think that an abstract landscape can become a familiar Place to a viewer: Shifting from an external point of view of looking at a landscape to enter a more intimate space, in which you experience emotions and sensations. The colors, strokes, shapes become a language that can resonate deeper than words.
The water and the Ocean are a recurrent element of inspiration for my work: it has always been very familiar to me and the characteristics and symbolic of water are ideal to illustrate the language of the soul.
My process involves drawing with charcoals, painting with a range of media (watercolor, acrylic and oil paint), and taking digital photography. While painting, I navigate between pouring, dripping, veiling and glazing techniques.

Throughout my life I have been strongly influenced by painters with an interest in light, atmosphere and energy, such as J.M.W Turner, Mark Rothko, G. Richter and P. Doig. With my Art, I aim to spark a connection between our inner lives and the outside world to create further awareness of our nature.

Marine Strage