by Mathilde Berry | Jan 29, 2016 | 2015 paintings, Bloom Series, My paintings
This is my first collaborative painting ever – painted with my dear friend Sandra and my 5-year old daughter Charlotte. Sandra and I started this painting one May afternoon as she was visiting me with her children. We “danced” the various shades of...
by Mathilde Berry | Jan 20, 2016 | 2015 paintings, My paintings
I created this painting in a couple of swift sessions at the end of spring / early summer 2015. This was the first time that I experimented with mixing an acrylic medium so thinly with heavy-body paint. The first layer was an adventure in drippings and can be guessed...
by Mathilde Berry | Jan 11, 2016 | 2015 paintings, My paintings
What feels like a quiet landscape of waves or clouds in hues of blue and white, mixed with copper and pink shades, is like the dream of a storm having washed over an atoll, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. “Outremer – Vagues mêlées” can be translated...
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...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 13, 2015 | 2015 paintings, Bloom Series, My paintings
I chose this title a little bit “tongue in cheek”. For a long time, this has been the favourite painting of the visitors to my house, friends and relatives commenting on the bright red flowers, the composition and the sense of light from above. I painted...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 10, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings
This painting was a major learning experience in letting go of expectations. I started in hues of blue, introduced pink and red in the earlier layers, with splashes of orange, made a bold transition to white which turned into branches coming from the sides into the...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 paintings, Dream Series, My paintings
Le cheval Chagall’s torso and front leg came out of energetic red markings at an early stage, the painting slowly taking shape as a tension between fire and water, the horse a mythic creature, phoenix like, coming out of the fire to plunge into an ocean of...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 paintings, Dream Series, My paintings
« Winterreise » or winter travel is a dreamy picture whose title is inspired by the music cycle of Schubert which was often running in the background when I painted it. The goddess-like figure with dark curls is gently blowing snow and frost onto tree tops, giving its...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 paintings, My paintings, Spirit Series
This is my first ever acrylic painting. Quite a magical experience. The beak of the eagle literally emerged from the marks I made on the canvas as I followed the process taught by Flora Bowley in her amazing 5-week e-course Bloom True which is about “brave,...
