Armelle Fox
Armelle Fox lives and works in Paris. Her work was exhibited in France and several European countries. Despite her enjoyment of the tensions of the creative process: ultimately, Armelle Fox is concerned with emotional states, ultimately with states of the soul.
“My work ‘Conciliabule’ belongs to the ‘Espèces d’Espaces’ series. It’s a series dealing mainly with the theme of landscape. Most of these paintings and drawings are arranged around one or more trees. For me the trees are real characters; in this painting they are in secret and mysterious discussion, a conciliabule. Growing in a landscape which seems to have been devastated by some natural or human made disaster, the four trees are growing from separated roots, each of them building their own trunk. But in the end they are melting together to build one mighty common treetop, which is a really convincing conciliatory symbol. In this artwork, like in most works of Armelle Fox during the last years, the landscapes are inscribed in the form of a circle. “For me, the circle gives both immensity and intimacy, the universal and the particular, an unstable balance.”
“Payne’s Grey Paysage – Conciliabule”, acrylic and mixt technique on paper and canvas (∅100cm).