Veronique Almarine is a French artist whose work explores the sensitive links between humans and living things, through a patient and meditative practice using Chinese ink. 

 

After an initial career as a lawyer at the Paris Bar, she chose to leave the capital and settle in Touraine, in a quieter environment conducive to listening to the natural world, where she finds constant inspiration. This change of lifestyle also marked the moment when art gradually but resolutely became her main activity.

 

Coming from a family where art has always played a central role, she has been drawing and painting since childhood. 

In her artistic career, she explored various mediums (comic strips, watercolors, pastels, oils, etc.) before finding, in black ink, an essential, rigorous, and committed form of expression.

 

Today, she devotes herself to the representation of imaginary and naturalistic landscapes in contrasting black and white, where light becomes a vehicle for emotion. Each work requires several months of meticulous work, at a deliberately slow pace: she claims the "long time" of creation as a form of resistance to the frenetic pace of the contemporary world.

Her practice is based on simple, natural materials—Chinese ink and thick pure cotton paper—which reinforce the tactile and visual intensity of the scenes depicted. 

Through tiny, multiple, and seemingly random strokes, contrasted with deep black areas, she blends softness and power to celebrate the silent transformations of nature, highlighting its imperfect, unfinished, and ephemeral beauty, echoing the powerful and distant principles of Wabi-Sabi.

 

Her approach is part of a constant attention to the fragility of life, to its shifting and indomitable complexity. 

Through her silent works and beyond the contemplative experience, by celebrating the beauty of a world that it is becoming vital to preserve, she delivers a discreet but resolute warning about the ecological emergency.

 

She has been exhibiting regularly since 2019, in galleries and at national and international art fairs.

Committed to the contemporary art scene, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Salon d'Automne in Paris, where she will also become co-president of the Drawing section in 2025.