by Mathilde Berry | Jan 2, 2016 | 2015 paintings, Bloom Series, My paintings
Mozart’s Requiem in D minor has been the main inspiration for this painting. My love for Mozart’s Requiem I absolutely love this piece of music which I first encountered during my studies as a teenager in musical education classes. This Requiem has always...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 25, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings, Storm Series
La mer et l’amour. Ocean and Love. Two topics which are intricately linked in my heart. I’ve always loved the ocean. Born in La Rochelle, on the Atlantic Coast, I feel most alive near the sea, a lake, a mountain stream or a river. Waves, ebb and flow, the...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 25, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings
This is the first painting where my memory of a sunset reflected in water transformed the painting, giving it its bold hues of red, violet and orange on darker blues. Why “sunset by chance”? Because it’s only when stepping back from the painting half...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 21, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings
This painting has had one of the slowest births that I can remember. And although its theme was so clear early on, I’ve added to it, taken away from it, modified it, touched it up and adjusted it over a number of weeks, coming back to it again and again, almost...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 16, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings, Universe Series
I experimented a lot of new techniques with this particular painting and totally changed the look and feel of it in one swift, energetic painting session with a large foam brush on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I remember vividly looking at the first layers, a fairly...
