Bio and Artistic Approach

Biography

Delphine Sénéchal, better known under the artist name Artedelph, is passionate about the Hispanic world and Iberian culture.

She studied Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Civilizations before teaching Spanish for many years. That's why it's important that her passion continues as an artist, introducing the word "art" through "arte" in Spanish in her artist name.

Through her family, she was immersed in the artistic world from a very early age. In 2013, she fell ill and gradually became a prisoner of a body that could no longer move forward or function. Her life and daily routine were completely turned upside down, and it was precisely at this moment that she threw herself headlong into painting.

Through creation, she gradually manages to rediscover her eternal optimism through her colorful works that symbolize and reveal the savored beauty of each moment. From the abstract of her beginnings, she has moved over the years towards more figurative canvases which, according to her, allow for interaction and a more effective transmission of the symbols and messages she wishes to convey.

The artist considers Art as a powerful therapeutic vector but also as an effective way to achieve “letting go” and to take pleasure in a moment t, faced with a society that is moving at full speed and that advocates excessive productivity, performance and competitiveness far too much. Through artistic projects and workshops, she wants to give everyone the chance to use the power of creation and thus offer in turn, the “magical” instruments that have allowed her to raise her head and continue to move forward.

In reality, The Creative Gesture allows us to show that despite the weakness or disarray in which we may one day find ourselves, we are all capable of transforming and sublimating them through a creative force and energy which has the power to overcome the darkest moments of our history...

Artistic approach

I entered the world of creation through abstraction, which quickly became my preferred mode of expression. This technique opened up a great field of freedom and experimentation for me and allowed everything that was bubbling inside to spontaneously emerge. Painting is the artist's inner metaphor. It allowed me to explore and experiment with different mediums and textures while directly accessing the sphere of the intimate, the "unspeakable," emotions and feelings.

Two years ago, I gradually moved towards more figurative forms and focused on the great masters of painting, immersing myself in the elements of their biography or their technique with which I identified. What interested me above all was to immerse myself in their innermost being and to understand how these great personalities had been precursors in their time, whether in their art or in their personal lives. In reality, I like everything that goes off the beaten track, everything that pushes back academic rules or labels. It is from this point of view that I create their portrait or revisit one of their works to reappropriate it and recontextualize it with my own style, history and personality.

From my beginnings, I have kept this pleasure of experimenting with different mediums and effects on the same canvas whether with acrylic, oil, Indian ink, watercolor inks or different collages (paper, cardboard or fabrics). Just like in Street Art, I like to imagine my canvas as a wall, with different torn posters that the artist will appropriate to transmit his imprint or his pictorial message to as many people as possible.

With this new collection, my message is clear: in the troubled period we have just experienced, let us draw our energy, our optimism and our joy of living from art and culture, which prove to be essential to our own balance and that of those around us...