Marie-Astrid has a very rhythmic approach to painting. She paints still lifes and rocks, but it is always perspectives that are emphasized. Her inspiration comes from the representation of spaces and objects, with their interplay of vertical and horizontal lines, curves, solids, and voids. A musicality of colors and forms consistently emerges from her work. The artist also plays with materials. She primarily paints with oil, while most artists have switched to acrylic due to its faster drying time. Marie-Astrid has turned this into a strength, as she builds her works in layers. This drying time allows her to revisit the artwork, modify it, and continue until she achieves a balanced result. Furthermore, Marie-Astrid is driven by a desire for freedom and is particularly attuned to the texture blending that oil painting allows (with turpentine, linseed oil, and various degrees of dilution creating subtle nuances). Her work is primarily deconstructed, step by step, to reach the essence and the right intensity. This process allows her to become familiar with the subject and internalize her work. Always on the edge of abstraction, Marie-Astrid seeks to evoke a sense of escape in the viewer, encouraging them to lose themselves in the harmony of her colors and forms. Marie-Astrid describes her work in these terms: "I would like my painting to lead the observer to escape, calmly, peacefully, by looking at each part of the painting in a unified way. The canvas is a whole; you enter from one side, wander through it, and exit... the composition and color harmony allow for this encounter with the other, this sharing of sensitivity." Read less