“I’m inclined to believe that painting can be for everyone what it is for me: a way to access our deepest emotions, the quiet center from which we often drift away in the agitation and multitude. It could be that painting is not sacred in itself, but it leads to what, within ourselves, is sacred. By doing so, its practice feels like a vocation: one that consists in taking the time to gaze at the world, to dare being moved by it and try “figuring” it. This means wanting to find the true face of Nature and beings, in a process that is only augmented by our loving consciousness.”

“This urge rarely stays without an answer and, one day, an echo emerges from it: suddenly, this or this painting, has turned upside down the mirror of reflection for a person, and he or she finds in it, through some mysterious complicity, the moving density of suspended time.”

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Marie Laurence GAUDRAT was born in Paris in 1952 among a happy family endowed with a pronounced taste for creativity and hard work. Her artist parents encouraged her to develop her curiosity from a very young age and she has been painting and honing her craft ever since.

Known throughout France as a dedicated and uniquely original artist whose work is rooted in the treasured traditions of long established methods and practices of the French School but yet deeply committed to her own personal style and interpretation, Marie-Laurence GAUDRAT has carved her own path into the public eye and, as such, is recognized as an authentic and bonafide member of the boundary-breaking French family of artists.

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https://www.ml-gaudrat.com/en/home/biography/