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Elise, painter 🇫🇷

Discover the portraits made by Elise

Elise's Happy Life

Born in 1990 in Lille, Elise is a painter and illustrator.

Her multiple lives in the North of France, then in the South and in Paris have forged the importance of intimacy in her artistic approach.
After studying applied arts, she spent 10 years as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, before deciding to devote herself to her personal artistic practice.

Today she lives on the road in her van. Her work, on canvas or on paper, weaves her inner journeys with the outside and human feelings with the beauty of the wild.

Elise's Happy STYLE

Whether it is the body, femininity or plants, she brings her creations to life by working with light and volume through textured flat tints and free colour palettes.

She mainly uses acrylic paint on canvas or paper and continuously practices drawing through sketches and illustrations with coloured pencils and pastels.

The tools she uses are therefore variable and multiple. The main thing is to create the work through the texture of the colours.

Why we LOVE Elise

We fell in love with Elise's portraits, which are very different from those already in our selection.

We love her soft colour palette and her cubist style which reminds us of the masters of cubism in the 1950s. His portraits are tender and full of intertwined feelings, and the result is a real poetry that has amazed us.

The Happy Funky PORTRAIT of Elise

♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
At the cinema when I saw Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, at the age of 12. A visual and auditory slap in the face that conditioned my creative process that links visual arts with music, cinema, poetry.

♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to her?
Niki de Saint Phalle. I would tell her that she showed me that art deals with trauma and that asserting yourself as a woman artist in your relationship and society is possible.

♥ What is your favourite colour? What does it inspire you?
I love flesh tones. They are mesmerizing and explicit of emotions depending on their hue.

portrait painted from a photo
hand-painted portrait from photo

♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why do you ask?
The Musée d'Orsay, far ahead of all others. First of all, the place is magnificent: I feel overwhelmed by Beauty in the central aisle. There are so many artists whose technique and composition fascinate me.

♥ Which work of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
Suzanne Valadon's "The Blue Room".

♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
One of the reasons I chose a life on the move is that I'm still looking for the city I won't want to leave.

♥ What book keeps you up all night?
Correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès

♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
The mountains, walks in museums and the cinema.

♥ What's the funkiest thing you've done in your life?
I left my friends and my Parisian life to convert a van into a home-studio on wheels all by myself and live from a permanent trip. All this before I even had my licence...

♥ What is your definition of happiness?
Not having to wonder how to achieve it anymore.

hand-painted portrait from photo

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