Interview with Béatrice Côté who cultivates her garden

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A Montreal garden green by the virgin vineyard. Therefore, The fall of the day. Meanwhile, Béatrice Côté evokes her artistic trajectory wrapped by lavender. For example, cosmos, tags, thoughts, zinnias and some geraniums that have flourished under the afternoon sun. Therefore, This decor could be that of one of his paintings. Consequently, “Why do I paint nature?” I don’t have the precise answer, but I think she can join everyone, do good. In addition, »»

For the artist, it is thus essential that interview béatrice côté who cultivates each can recognize themselves, to project themselves, through its subjects. Moreover, “I rub shoulders with communities in environments with different privileges, and nature allows me to manage things,” she explains. Similarly, Things that, despite the precariousness of the world, can be beautiful. Consequently, Flowers, trees, sky, successive seasons.

“I am inspired by nature in town. Similarly, which I spend a lot of time observing, to better understand my own states,” says Béatrice Côté. For example, In his workshop. Furthermore, these scenes offered by nature lead the artist in a game with colors, light, gestures – not without recalling impressionism – to translate an emotion. Consequently, “It was not wanted to register in this current. In addition, ” she said, while explaining to slide her brush over the canvas in a flexible and suggestive movement. Therefore, “I paint blurry, without defined lines, and nature lends itself well,” she adds. Furthermore, The perceived interview béatrice côté who cultivates depth is reinforced by thin layers of accumulated paint then faded with sanded paper according to its moods. The dance of pigments and solvents.

During her residence at the Nars Foundation. in New York, in 2024, Béatrice Côté notably found inspiration with the Hudson river. “It was the view of my studio. I decided to go for a walk on the shore: what a good time!” »The feeling of water. the sun in the summer then gives place to Palisadea deconstructed vision of this fleeting moment. “Someone pointed out to me that the circular movements of the leaves reminded him of the movement of my curly hair. ” she said with enthusiasm. It’s still full respondent. I really liked his comment. our discussion on what we can unconsciously put yourself in our works [qu’il s’agisse du physique ou de l’affectif]. »

Interview béatrice côté who cultivates

Shaped by travel

Nourished by its interview béatrice côté who cultivates many stays outside Quebec. from Paris to Greece, via California and Banff, Montrealer born and raised today wants to compose more with its intuition. “There is undoubtedly an impressionist side in my painting. but having spent so much time in New York [où elle expose régulièrement] I opened the doors of abstraction and the whole history of abstract art, ”she says.

The deepening of the unloading technique is now in its sights. “I would like to be able to bring my intuition on larger formats,” she breathes. According to the artist. her experiences abroad – all she saw, the galleries she visited, the people she met – can only help her forge her artistic identity.

To the memory of her two years spent in London. between 2016 and 2018, Béatrice Côté realizes the path traveled, the autonomy won. “This is where everything has changed,” she says. At the time, she worked interview béatrice côté who cultivates in a web design company and did not imagine becoming an artist. “But I got bored, so I took pottery lessons, which I already did in Montreal, as a hobby. And then I went there all-in : evening lessons in drawing at the Royal Drawing School. A certificate in metal and sculpture In Central Saint Martins, ”she says. His goal? Create a portfolio to be admitted to an art school. She will finally make a baccalaureate in Concordia.

Later, Rwanda will also be a striking trip to the artist. When she accompanied her former partner who was dealing in Kigali in 2021. her relationship to ceramics takes on a new meaning. When she plays tennis on clay (clay courtin English), she imagines that she walks on clay. “Sport, ceramics, painting … All of this was overlapping. I started to see my artistic practice differently – for example in the discipline, interview béatrice côté who cultivates routine and repetition aspect. »»

According to her, artistic language finds its source as much in intuition as in muscle memory. “These are my movements that make my work are clean to me,” explains the artist.

“I have developed a technique of colored tiles in which I integrate the pigments with a clay. without glaze,” she says with regard to her recent ceramics practice. A variation of colors, like a patchwork. “I would now like to create 3D forms that can look like vases. but which are much more organic, and which can come into contact with my paintings,” continues Béatrice Côté, while she admits still having a lot to learn to get to stand out as a ceramist visual artist. “It’s difficult, because explorations are endless with ceramics,” she notes.

Thanks to the colors that tints her work. Béatrice Côté therefore hopes to arouse spectators a range of emotions in pure interview béatrice côté who cultivates aesthetics in spectators and spectators. “All these heat waves, these forest fires … it shows us a changing nature,” she notes. In fact, in Montreal, the evening is already too hot.

“In my own way. since my privileged position, I try to bring out the beautiful from all this uncertainty and this anxiety,” said the artist. She believes that the beauty of nature will always prevail. “It is important for me to paint it so that we continue to live and that we can feel better. At least for a moment. “There is not enough, but the beautiful, it can really do good, especially at the moment,” she says. A bit like the Impressionists did in France at the end of the 19th century^e century.

Interview béatrice côté who cultivates

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