Marie Rioux Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW striking contrast the grass on this early music selected probably influences me, but I summer’s day was so green, almost fluorescent. don’t know to what extent. I presume, I was excited, it was mad fun. The savage however, that some of my favourite music beauty of the spectacular, menacing ambience stimulates me to use strong, powerful, deep around me had a profound effect and revealed and even sombre colours. Do other kinds of to me the extent to which I was captivated by music also have an effect on the light similar natural spectacles. Splendours such as introduced into my work? these are certainly the bedrock of my artistic personality. I think that music – or sounds – most likely can I take no pleasure in reproducing nature become an intrinsic or complementary element exactly. I tried plein air painting in the past but in certain kinds of pictorial or spatial art. did not find it satisfying. I don’t really like We really appreciate your ability to create reproducing anything at all. My work does not suchharmonic balancebetween figuration and contain the kind of specific details you allude to abstraction, that invites the viewers to in your question. elaboratetheir own meaning and pleasure. I prefer to work in my studio, giving free rein to Moreover, your paintings often features titles my yen. There I transform reality by bringing a able to offer guidance to your spectatorship: degree of the dreamlike into my work: how do you go about naming your work ? In figurative, abstract, surrealist, I like to break particular, is important for you to tell down barriers. something that might walk the viewers through their own visual experience? How do you considerthe relationship between Marie Rioux: Your questions are all so kind! visual arts and music? In particular, how does Thank you again for your kind words. the music that you listen to when creating influence your process? In fact I believe I have achieved a fine Marie Rioux: Both of these art forms create in equilibrium between figuration and the listener or the observer a sense of well abstraction, and I ascribe this to the period in being or other emotions, but by different the 1990s when I did mostly abstract painting. I means. What music and the visual arts have in am quite at ease with this kind of art and I common is to create enveloping and make use of it easily and spontaneously complementary worlds which affect our senses. without barriers. In addition, each of them enriches the other. The painting’s title emphasises what the work In the studio, having music in the background suggests to me once it is finished and comes to lets me concentrate better. It creates an me spontaneously. This must be the result of enveloping protective bubble. Without music, I channelling the ideas of my initial inspiration have too many ideas which go in every direction when I started work on it. and make me lose a lot of time. With music, it’s My works are small stories with intentional like I am working in another world... messages, and with the title I suggest a way of My choice of music creates an ambience in reading it. Nevertheless, it is up to each keeping with my tastes at the moment. The observer to give it individual meaning and to