About Me
Véronique ALMARINE
Drawing Artist
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Member of the Board of Directors of the Salon d’Automne in Paris
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Co-President of the Drawing Section of the Salon d’Automne in Paris
Co-Head of the Drawing Section of the Salon d’Automne in Paris,
in partnership with Antoine Aizier.
They advocate for pure, demanding drawing, rooted in a contemporary and poetic approach.
BIOGRAPHY
Veronique Almarine is a French artist based in Touraine.
She explored various mediums before finding her preferred medium in Chinese ink, which allows her to combine technical precision with contemplative expression.
Her work with Chinese ink explores the sacred aspect of life through imaginary, sensitive, and silent landscapes.
Each work is the result of a deliberately slow process, constructed from tiny touches and strokes, deep contrasts, and gentle or powerful oppositions.
Inspired by a nature rich in its imperfections and impermanence, her practice values the beauty and fragility of the ephemeral, inviting us to slow down and contemplate the moment.
Affirming her commitment to the contemporary art scene, Véronique Almarine has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Salon d'Automne in Paris since 2025, where she is Co-President of the Drawing section.
She exhibits regularly in France and internationally.
ARTISTIC APPROACH
"Truth comes from observing nature."
This conviction guides Véronique Almarine's work. Curious and demanding, she develops a deeply personal body of work, somewhere between visual poetry and philosophy of life. Her art stems from an intimate connection with living things, not in the form of faithful representation, but in the expression of that mystery and sacredness that resonates within each of us.
Trained in drawing since childhood, she has been exploring the expressive possibilities of Chinese ink on cotton paper for several years, a technique she considers both demanding and generous. She favors simple, natural, sustainable materials, in line with the values she defends.
Each work is created slowly, in a meditative process that can last several months.
"The smaller the stroke, the more powerful and profound the effect will be."
Tiny, multiple, and seemingly random strokes accumulate to reveal a natural landscape, where light contrasts with shadow, detail with the whole, with no colors other than the black of the ink, the white of the paper, and their variations of gray.
Rather than demonstrating or narrating, she seeks to evoke feelings. She composes imaginary scenes imbued with realism, where emotion arises from the details: a rock with soft contours, a trembling ridge line, a forest emerging from the mist...
These silent worlds appeal to the viewer's sensory attention, their ability to slow down, to stop and listen.
Her aesthetic research is inspired by principles close to Japanese Wabi-Sabi—imperfection, impermanence, incompleteness—but also by a profound ecological philosophy: to remind us that what is most precious is often discreet, ephemeral, and vulnerable.
"Since everything passes, let's pause for a moment."
In a world saturated with fast-moving images, Véronique champions the long view: that of creation, as well as that of contemplation. Her work invites us to look differently, to feel differently—with sincerity, calm, and humility.
Her landscapes are like refuges. Poetic interstices between reality and imagination.
Attempts to capture the moment as it is offered to us, before it fades away.
ARTISTIC CONCEPT
"The Imprint of Silence"
Véronique Almarine's work revolves around the concept of the imprint of silence, a visual and sensory exploration in which Indian ink becomes the vehicle for a meditation on transience, nature, and slowness.
Each work is born from emptiness, constructed in shadow and light, and invites introspection, contemplation, even a form of meditation.
By stripping the composition down to its essentials, the artist creates a form of optical silence, a visual tranquility where the gaze rests without being solicited, thus rediscovering a gentle and conscious attention.
In a hurried world, her artistic process champions slowness as an act of poetic resistance.
The landscapes she draws are never mere representations of reality. They are inner reminiscences, nourished by memory and the sensitive imprint left by emotion.
True to the wabi-sabi aesthetic, each line, each void, each tremor carries within it the unfinished and the beauty of life.
Her works do not describe a place, but an atmosphere. They evoke a delicate erasure, not as an end, but as the promise of a return—the discreet and eternal movement of renewal.
This concept resonates with the Japanese tradition of "ma"—the space between things—Gaston Bachelard's thinking on the poetic intimacy of places, and Michael Kenna's silent photographs.
Each of Véronique Almarine's works is an invitation to slow down, listen to the silence of the world, and perceive, in the delicacy of a line, the depth of what is left unsaid, the discreet presence of what escapes words.
Take the time to discover her universe, both delicate and contemplative: it will speak to you silently, with rare intensity.
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