"Quelqu’un que j’ai aimé autrefois m’a donné une boîte plein d’obscurité. Il m’a fallu des années pour comprendre que cela, aussi, était un cadeau."
- Mary Oliver, Thirst | The Uses of Sorrow, 2006 (traduction approximative par rery)
Thanks to dvdp’s technical advice, I finally made my card animated and tickled my living-far-away-sis’ nose. This will be my last post of 2011, as I’m off to celebrate the coming of 2012. I sincerely thank you all for this year and wish you a very happy new year… Bonne année et à bientôt !
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Rery | Rery on ARTchipel.com (Taiwan/France) - Sublime banalité. Limited digital drawing, Fine Art print on Hahnmühle paper, 30x40 cm (2011)
limited fine art print available here >
• Tell us in few words about you. Born in Taipei, grew up in Montreal, I live and work in Paris for over eight years. I think my multicultural experience is the biggest influence on my personality, my life and my work. I also believe that, having traveled a lot has made me a person who needs to be surprised continually.
• What motivated you to become an artist? I have always loved drawing since child: on a sketch book, a tissue in the restaurant. But I have hard time to consider myself artist but illustrator who illustrate a person, an emotion or a state of mind…
• What are your work process and techniques?I use my tablet to make illustrations in Illustrator but have always a little sketches book with me to draw down the unexpected ideas. I like the nearly perfect control and the multiple possibilities of the digital art, as much as the spontaneity and the freedom of the hand drawing.
• Tell us a bit about your work habits. Often late at night when I’m less stressed by the outside world, with some music and a cigarette.
• What inspires and provokes imagination in you? I make Hans Hartung’s words mine: “Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.” I’ve always felt the need to express my inner world through the images. My artistic influence is multiple: from the manga I read during my childhood to the contemporary art such as Soulages, Serra, Anish Kapoor, Kiefer, Cy Twombly, Rothko, Jong-sang Lee, Gao Xingjian, Il Lee, Yayoi Kusama, Toshio Shibata, Ryoji Ikeda, etc. Everything can be a source of inspiration to me: the clichés of our society, emotions of daily life, people I love or I meet on the street, my daydreams…
• Does your work reflect your person?Very probably
• The adjective that best describes you? Ambivalent
• The word you prefer? Absurdity
Rery is also the co-founder of ARTchipel.com and co-curate ARTchipel.tumblr. You can visit her rery.tumblr for her illustrations and rerylikes.tumblr for some inspirations.
(interview with artist by ARTchipel Dec-2011)
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My interview on ARTchipel Tumblr *
Rery | Rery on ARTchipel.com (Taiwan/France) - Sublime banalité. Limited digital drawing, Fine Art print on Hahnmühle paper, 30x40 cm (2011)
limited fine art print available here >
• Tell us in few words about you.
Born in Taipei, grew up in Montreal, I live and work in Paris for over eight years. I think my multicultural experience is the biggest influence on my personality, my life and my work. I also believe that, having traveled a lot has made me a person who needs to be surprised continually.
• What motivated you to become an artist?
I have always loved drawing since child: on a sketch book, a tissue in the restaurant. But I have hard time to consider myself artist but illustrator who illustrate a person, an emotion or a state of mind…
• What are your work process and techniques?
I use my tablet to make illustrations in Illustrator but have always a little sketches book with me to draw down the unexpected ideas. I like the nearly perfect control and the multiple possibilities of the digital art, as much as the spontaneity and the freedom of the hand drawing.
• Tell us a bit about your work habits.
Often late at night when I’m less stressed by the outside world, with some music and a cigarette.
• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
I make Hans Hartung’s words mine: “Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.” I’ve always felt the need to express my inner world through the images. My artistic influence is multiple: from the manga I read during my childhood to the contemporary art such as Soulages, Serra, Anish Kapoor, Kiefer, Cy Twombly, Rothko, Jong-sang Lee, Gao Xingjian, Il Lee, Yayoi Kusama, Toshio Shibata, Ryoji Ikeda, etc. Everything can be a source of inspiration to me: the clichés of our society, emotions of daily life, people I love or I meet on the street, my daydreams…
• Does your work reflect your person?
Very probably
• The adjective that best describes you?
Ambivalent
• The word you prefer?
Absurdity
Rery is also the co-founder of ARTchipel.com and co-curate ARTchipel.tumblr. You can visit her rery.tumblr for her illustrations and rerylikes.tumblr for some inspirations.
(interview with artist by ARTchipel Dec-2011)
[more Rery | Rery on ARTchipel.com]
"Il est difficile de définir l’amour. Dans l’âme c’est une passion de régner, dans les esprits c’est une sympathie, et dans le corps ce n’est qu’une envie cachée et délicate de posséder ce que l’on aime après beaucoup de mystères."
- François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665–1678)
