Joelle Deroy | Painter & Watercolorist
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Artist's Statement

Our moods are changing like clouds in the sky; yet our profound nature is something much more stable and peaceful. Painting after painting, I am giving form to this inner reality, echoing in my work the rhythm of our own nature.

Ultimately, I believe that the art shape will be truer if also the most simple and beautiful. However, this simplicity is hard fought: as Brancusi said, “in art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.”
This is why I build each painting as a succession of paintings, one level leading me to the next one and making me see, until I find the beauty I am looking for.

People, places and ideas inspire me. In this perspective, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy could not but be a source of inspiration, as it is on this beautiful path between representation and abstraction, outside and inner worlds, reality and phantasm.
 
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Joëlle Deroy | "Calligraphic Paintings"
works inspired by Chinese and Japanese arts

exhibition @ Le Consulat Général de France
934 Fifth Avenue at 74th Street | New York, NY 10021

November 16, 2004 - January 15, 2005
press release


Works Exhibited | Checklist
click on underlined title to see a large image and information
 
WORKS ON CANVAS - Acrylic & mixed media
Flamenco
  42 x 11 inches (107 x 28 cm)
 
Vertigo
  36 x 12 inches (91 x 30 cm)
 
At The Terrasse 
   42 x 11 inches (106 x 28 cm)
   
The Flow (“Qi”-Dyptic)
  50 x 32 inches (127 x 81 cm)
   
The Unknown
  24 x 18 inches (61 x 45 cm)
   
River I
  26 x 26 inches (66 x 66 cm)
 
River II
  26 x 26 inches (66 x 66 cm)
   
Courage
  40 x 42 inches (101 x 106 cm)
   
Male Attitude
  36 x 24 inches (91 x 61 cm)
   
Travel
  24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)
   
Rhythm & Blues
  36 x 36 inches (91 x 91 cm)
   
Awakening
  20 x 24 inches (50 x 61 cm)
 
Bouquet
  8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)
   
Wave of the Red Sea
   6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm)
   
Oh, those slopes!
  6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm)
   
Nuptial Veil I (Dyptic)
  6 x 12 inches (15 x 30 cm)
   
Nuptial Veil II (Dyptic)
  6 x 12 inches (15 x 30 cm)
   
WORKS ON PAPER
French Countryside (watercolor on paper)
   15 x 24 inches (38 x 61 cm)
   
 Lac Leman (watercolor on paper)
  16 x 25 inches (40 x 63 cm)
   
Summer Pick (five watercolors on paper)
  4 x 9 inches (10 x 23 cm)
   
Variations (three watercolors on Japanese board)
  14 x 3 inches (36 x 7.6 cm)
   
 Ouch ! (watercolor on paper)
  13.5 x 10.5 inches (34 x 26.6 cm)
   
Brooklyn Bridge (watercolor on Japanese board)
  2.4 x 14 inches (6xx 36 cm)
   
 Cliffs (watercolor on paper)
  4 x 9 inches (10 x 23 cm)
   
 25. Mountain Light (watercolor on Japanese board)
  9.5 x 10.5 inches (24 x 26.6 cm)
   
26. On the shore (pastel on paper)
  8.5 x 12 inches (21.5 x 31.5 cm)
   
 27. Brittany I & II (pastel & watercolor on paper)
  6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm)
   
 28. Voyage (watercolor on paper)
  17 x 24 inches (43 x 61 cm)
   
 29. Sea Breeze (watercolor on paper)
  17 x 23 inches (43 x 58 cm)

 

 


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