| D o e l Watercolor paintings BIOGRAPHY |
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| Born in Africa, Doel arrives in Switzerland when she is eight years old. She discovers painting by "immersion". As a matter of fact, when she spends long holidays with her grand-parents, collectors and fond of painting, she discovers a fascinating universe ! So many masterpieces are there. Walls are not large enough to present them all. The doors are also used as support. "I will break all your paintings" says the girl to her grand-father. She is of course teasing and he knows it perfectly though he scolds her as a kind of joke. He and Doel both know that they are bound by a tender "complicity" passing through their common love for painting. Words are not necessary to explain the reason why the eyes of the child express so much joy in front of all that beauty. This wonderful grand-father also transmits her love for human beings, nature and life, the sources where she will later find her inspiration. Then comes school time and drawing courses. Doel loves to draw and paint, and her teachers say she is gifted. Time is passing. Doel keeps in her heart this love for visual arts but life has its own rules. She early marries, becomes a mother and "forgets" for a time a part of her childhood's passion. Many years later, she finally dares to begin to draw and paint again, and attends watercolor courses given by Chi Van Lam as well as some other courses given by Bernard Völlmy. This is a true revelation. Her brushes are now quite always in her hands. "Paper's light" and watercolor transparencies open a new window to Doel. She is presenting here her "water and pigments delights" and proposes them to you. Since 2009, she also paints acrylics as well as watercolors. "When I paint, I travel and am myself all together. Fluidity, water and sky mobility, the part or hazard of the liquid element allow me to reach unexpected and unknown shores which are anyhow always changing and therefore simply magic. These somewhat desert horizons, these "heading for the open sea" are for me sort of a real breathing. I am grateful to life and the acquaintances it grants, to my grand-parents, so unique as they were, as well as to my teachers in painting (living painters or Masters of the past), who allowed me this docking to the promise land, if one dare to use this term. Indeed, painting demands a continuous research, day by day, with our eyes always watchful, the heart always in turmoil. Limits are constantly pushed further, the shore seems to remain out of reach, but what really matters is the trip itself, because it is a soul travel. Thank you to life and to what it brought and brings me day after day, thank you also to Colette, the well-renowned french writer, a very close friend of my grand-parents, for being the wonderful person that I discovered later, through the correspondence she exchanged with them. I feel that I share with this Lady an unconditional love for human beings, animals and nature in general. I love the way she has been able to describe, through her moving words about her mother, Sido, the fascinating enchantment of the house and garden. I would like, very modestly, to try to transcribe some of this enchantment in my works and share this gift with others". Doel |
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| More about Doel : Awardee (writing) Dolls...dolls...dolls |
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