Corine Perier
For 10 years Corine Perier worked as a restoration painter, handling precious old paintings and being inspired by what she preserved. With her love of textures, light quality and the brush strokes of painters long gone combined with her life-long fascination for fantasy, children’s’ stories, dreams and imaginary worlds, she decided to concentrate fully on being an artist in her own right.
Preferring smooth board to canvas, Perier paints a surrealist world where ‘wildlife mutations exist in depopulated landscapes.’ Layering oil paint glazes to create a smoothness, depth and luminosity that enhance the dreamlike quality of her paintings. These hybrid creatures emphasize a world where adaptation is a necessity for continued existence.
Often juxtaposing the hunter and hunted within one body or linking species that, in the real life, would never be seen united. Her strange world is one where the extinction of one species, leads to odd mutations of the remaining ones. It’s a reminder to the viewer that the real world is altering beyond recognition and of the existing predicament of vanishing species on this ever changing planet.
From foxes wearing armour to birds with cat heads, this surreal world offers a vision of an unbalanced world. A world in which the edges of reality, dreams and concepts are blurred together but also a place to appreciate the inherent beauty of a delicious mystery.
