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Painting by French artist Do Fournier (*1951).

Fournier, Do (French, b. 1951)

BIOGRAPHY

Do Fournier was born in the medieval town of Guerande in the Brittany region of Western France. She began her career as successful illustrator and turned to painting personal subjects in 1984. Fournier has participated in numerous prestigious exhibitions in her native France and has been featured at the Salon d’Automne, Paris. Fournier creates paintings of fantastic, colorful and intimate worlds drawn from the environs of her own home overlooking the sea. Her daughters, furnishings and pets are the primary subjects. They are often in repose or engaged in the simple pleasures of everyday life. While the subject matter is highly personal, she transforms these domestic interiors into dream-scapes where the delightful ordinary meets the imagined extraordinary. As the noted French critic Gerard Xuriguera has observed: “Her approach in an uneasy society is not to describe it’s pain but the potential it still harbors for joy, it’s fragile moments of charm and peacefulness stolen from a routine existence. To do this she expresses reality in its most intimate, sensual, peaceful and carnal form. Not as imitation but as a vision filtered through her observations and cast in the exuberance of her blazing colours. What she is trying to capture is fleeting emotion, to immobilize it and express it as simply as possible. Here, as Bonnard puts it, “emotion springs up in its time. The shock is instantaneous, often unexpected.” Above all a painter of atmospheres, the art of Do Fournier occasionally takes on a baroque air laden with mixtures of color, graphical convolutions, objects negligently arranged, bodies in a state of abandonment that take us to the heart of a universe half way between dreams and the familiar. In filigree we find traces of the Nabis in the stylization of form and movement, surfaces of contrasting colours and the kitschy surroundings. We are not looking here at some melancholy representation but one that is refreshing and greedy for life.”

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