Francine Cliche

Initially inspired by different artistic practices, my work took a new direction and a new turn when I discovered the Chinese brush technique and Chinese ink. Strongly influenced by my intensive practice of Body Movement, the combination of brush and ink enabled me to reconnect with the freedom of gesture, with movement in its purest expression, with the primary gesture.
Guided by my sensitivity, my inspiration and connected to the present moment, I translate what I feel at the very moment my brush inks the paper. Whatever the subject, landscape, character or other, capturing movement is my main motivation. Drawing not just the object or body in question, but transposing its anima, its energy, its movement.

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