Myriam Caumes, “Sunny”, contemporary work

Myriam Caumes, signed.

Series of three “Sunny” paintings. Mixed media: collage and painting.

French contemporary work.

Dimensions : 1 : H 3,7 x W 18  x D 14 cm. 2 : H 3,7 x W 16  x D 22 cm. 3 : H 3,7 x W 24  x D 19,2 cm

Reference : LS4669701

The “Sunny Totems” form a set of luminous totems, carriers of joy and vitality. They are real little jewels, half painting, half sculpture. Completely modular, these three double-sided totems are worked in a material specific to Myriam, to be then covered with a glossy surrounded by finely cut newspaper. They borrow from the digon locks the refinement of the simplicity of the forms and are inspired by the fluidity of the movement of the Ethiopian crosses.

Myriam Caumes was born in Paris. She has devoted more than twenty years to the artistic dressage of horses. Her equestrian representations have taken her under the light of flashes as a mannequin and model on horseback as well as in the shadow of cinema dubbing as an equestrian stuntwoman and physical understudy of the greatest French and international actresses. The vicissitudes of life kept him away from horses and the cinema. From this rupture and from some circumstances was born a need to express. Passionate about design and graphics, this need is taking shape today through a plastic practice developed at the École Supérieure d’Art Graphique (ESAG, formerly Atelier Met in Penninghen) and at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Resolutely contemporary and graphic, Myriam Caumes’s painting is inspired by the primitive arts, their role of intermediation between human reality and the invisible world, but also wabi-sabi and Scandinavian design. The work of textures and matter comes to translate the poetics, as creative power, of the vital forces. Made up of natural pigments, the canvas is reworked by scarifications before being ratified, sometimes worked with shinny resin, creating a play of shadows and light.