Some artists paint with their brushes. Valérie Guerinoni paints with the raw flesh of her emotions. A self-taught artist nourished by the radiant light of the South where she lives, this French painter gives life to an abundant, intuitive, visceral body of work. Her knife technique — her unmistakable signature — is not merely a pictorial gesture: it is the imprint of an inner urgency, the need to translate human emotion into matter.
Her canvases, saturated with bold and sometimes raw colours, are traversed by feminine figures that seem to both emerge from the surface and dissolve into it. Valérie Guerinoni does not paint idealised women; she gives form to presences — fragile and powerful, intimate and universal. These are women who exist in the instant of colour, in the very flesh of the material. They appear, veil themselves, reveal themselves. And always, they move us.
