Artist. Painter : my universe
I paint my dreams, dance, magic, light, as well as sadness, shadow, obscurity, tears.
I paint what composes my life : my inner characters, my angels, my fairies, my elves, my demons...
I'm happy to share with you thoses worlds, that belong to every one, as they appear one filtered through my eyes and my hands.
And I love that your magical look gives life to my paintings.
Sometimes for sale, sometimes already sold, may I introduce you to the emerged part of my eclectic universe.
Garance Monziès, or the small treatise of alchemy
by Martine Struzik
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making darkness conscious" C.G.Jung
Through her art, Garance Monziès, as an alchemist, shares with us her visions and inner transformations. I met her in a 5 Rythms workshop in Paris.
I did not know she was a painter, but I saw her dance, through fleeting meetings. But despite the fleeting nature of these meetings, I immediately rnoticed something special: her movements, her interiority, and especially her grace. Each time I met her, she let, perhaps without knowing it, and with a real sensitivity, appear large parts of her life that touched me. At least that's what I felt.
I had the opportunity to see her again and see also some of her paintings. I immediatly contacted again the feeling of the first meeting. I remained intrigued, watched her from a distance, not wanting to disturb what was happening in front of me. Her discretion and restraint suited me perfectly. My desire was to meet her beyond words, through her paintings.
Begining of an article published in the magazine of the Musée de la Création Franche, spring 2012
The Dance
e-moi dans tout ça... is a serie of oil paintings I began as I was living on a barge on the Thames in London, and shown on a barge, on the Seine, in 2010.
It represents people I met during this 3 years journey into my dreams, , realizations and dancing visions.
I can conceive graphism for you : flyers, labels, logo, or any communication support.
If you wish to get an estimate, order something or get informations about graphism works, contact me .
Titus et Zoé are the characters of a fairy tale I have written and illustrated, under the artistic direction of Asha Meralli, between 2004 and 2006.
They are casein painting on wood.
Each one measures 8,2 X 11,8 inch.
Titus et Zoé are traveling through the world of Imagination looking for a remede that would allow them stop being as good as gold.
To read the story, clic on the first image and follow the move...
Serie of small acrylic on canvas for kids. 1,2 X 1,2 inch, 2008
My first painting : Hibou, 1983
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It might be because I know the art of having the head in the air that I spent years decorating chairs with images and sentences coming from my parisians dawdlings.
This is a secret passage to the Kingdom
of Chairs : click here to open the door its door in a new window!
The fairy of forgoten chairs
Article published in Votre Maison Votre Jardin n° 362, April Mai 2008 Text : Nicole Adreev Photos : Christian Hochet
Garance Monziès Loves abandoned chairs. Painting, she gives them a second life and tells stories on them with all her detonating colours and original graphics.
Devoted to her work and discrete, this 28 years old Young woman has more than one trick up her sleeve. After stydying in Hypokhâghne and khâgne, Garance passes a Master of History of Art. An artist at heart, she seeks her expression in painting and writing. One day, she randomly finds her first chair in a flea market in the city. Her first subject. « What interested me right away was to take the chair as a support for my painting. » she says.
Attracted by the variety of shapes, the many facets of this abandoned chairs, she makes hes brushes dance on it, her colours play, as if by magic.
Each chair as shadows and light, open or hidden faces. It’s like a Small theater, a building in cross-section, where floor to floor, different scènes go on simultaneously, touching one another and moving away, intersecting or overlaping. »
Player and playful, Garance dialogues with chairs. She creates situations, plays with characters, words, sentences from her imagination.
« These are thoughts and afterthoughts that circulate from the top to bottom, from left to right, are interpreted, intertwined, make sense or sometimes get lost into the absurd. »
She is happy and proud to combine, throught her créations, her taste for the recovery and her dsire to design a new decorative furniture. Fairy traveler, shed recently did not hesitate when a couple living in London invited her to immerge herself into their universe and create chairs in accordance.
It’s not surprising that her chairs now have a face to face, for a while or forever, with stood up human beings. And one gets to respect these new friends, look at them, and if one ever sits on it, it’s always after a moment of inner reflection, a pause, a little bit of freshness, of happiness and lightness earned.
What amuses me is that very often, we take another chair to watch the intruder become beautiful decorative object in itself."
Garance, who chose this subject for its first expressions, also painted many other formats: bedside tables, doors, headboards ... paintings! With it, the journey in the imagination is assured.
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Links to friends' websites
Dancing Across Borders : dance
Nopsir : photography
Bonhomme : music
Gabrielle Roth : 5 rhythms
Baum : décoration
Adnomad : design and inside architecture
Ximena de Leon Lucero : drawing and engraving
Selma Lepart : arts plastiques
Antoine Jag : photography
Florence Dupont : stained glasses
Dacodemo : painting
Emile Zwaltek : photo, painting, graphism, 3D...
Création Franche museum gross arts
Margherita Rigoli : architecture and design
Léa Eouzan : photography
Biusch : tailored things
Louis Monziès : painting (my grand-grand father)
Atelier 154 : design and industrial furniture
Jacques Laurent : voice dialogue
Gilles Coullet : dance
Jean Pierre Besenval : meubles peints
Ecoute en corps : relaxation, well being
Martine Struzik : psycho energetic approach of being
Pobu : villa Luduvina for rent in Goa !
Wix : self site internet (trop bien)
Zappotek : music
