Cati Burnot

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Some artists create not from aesthetic impulse, but from an inner breath — a visceral necessity. Cati Burnot, known simply as Cati, is one of them. A graduate of the Van der Kelen Institute in Brussels, where she earned a gold medal in traditional techniques, she reinvents the legacy of Flemish glazes and faux wood/marble effects by infusing them with the essence of her own universe — an abstract, ethereal, feminine, and powerful world.

Her work is deeply nourished by her travels and residencies in lands of light — Japan, Africa, the Caribbean — sensory territories that infuse her palette with vibrant colors, subtle energies, and shifting balances. Yet for Cati, color is less an effect than a state of being. Each canvas becomes a threshold between shadow and light, an alchemy between fire and water, between presence and transparency.

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Her work has been presented in Cannes in solo exhibitions and in Monaco in a group exhibition organized by Art Collect®, marking a new stage of recognition for the artist.

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Her forms are often circular, fluid, almost embryonic. They evoke the womb of the world or the matrix of dreams. There is in her painting an organic dimension — both gentle and primal — where the feminine is expressed not as representation but as language: an inner language, a sensual, visceral, and almost sacred alphabet. As she writes, “The play of dreams conveys the spirit of the world through the gaze.”

Each work seems to emerge from an amniotic fluid, as if still in gestation. The image reveals itself without freezing; the line floats, the pigment breathes. One does not simply look at a painting by Cati — one contemplates it, enters it, and loses oneself in it — between mystical contemplation and aesthetic vertigo.

There is in her work a form of silent ritual — a sensitive quest for a space where the visible meets the invisible. Light guides the eye toward an elsewhere. The material, treated in transparency or in thickness, awakens the viewer’s sensory memory. One senses an intimate cosmogony, fragments of stars, a new kind of spatiality. Sometimes the image withdraws, eludes, as if to invite deeper introspection. At other times, it bursts forth like a mosaic of raw emotions.

And therein lies the fertile paradox of her work: to impose nothing, yet suggest everything. To leave room for mystery, for the impulse of life, for that vibration that connects us — despite ourselves — to a world that is both ancient and yet to come. A work of balance, of gentle strength, where intuition, technical heritage, contemporary experimentation, and the breath of life converge.

For Cati paints to reveal — not to impose a truth, but to caress the enigma: that of being, of the world, and of the gaze we cast upon it.

 

TESTIMONIALS

How could I not praise the talent of my favorite artist, Cati Burnot! I had the pleasure of meeting her at the Belmond La Samanna Hotel, part of the LVMH group in Saint Martin, and we also had the privilege of showcasing her work. During that evening, many art lovers gathered to admire the stunning creations of this master of oil painting, using the Flemish glazing technique. Each guest shared their own vision, perception, and emotions in front of her canvases. Whether it’s the sky or the sea in turmoil, outer space, life beneath the water — or above all, Love — her work speaks with vibrant, warm colors that, to me, embody the colors of life. Every day, I have the joy of contemplating the work of our artist, Cati Burnot, and I thank her sincerely for welcoming me not just as a client, but as a friend.

Serge Gouloumès

Guided by the hand of the artist Cati Burnot, her timeless bubbles carry you into a surprising and ever-unfinished universe. As a happy owner of several of her paintings, I often sit down comfortably in front of one, letting my thoughts drift away. Though it begins with an image, I never enter the colors the same way twice. It’s powerful and delightful — and to borrow the words of Nietzsche:“One must be willing to get lost for a while if one wants to learn something about beings that are not oneself.”

Jacques Oëhl