Laurence Amélie

Laurence Amélie, daughter of renowned Swiss abstract painter Gérard Schneider, continues the family tradition of painting. Amélie paints from her idyllic country setting near Fontainebleau. It is the house where her father, a contemporary of Picasso, painted during the highly active mid-century abstract period. Amélie paints using acrylic and spends days preparing the background colour washes of her work, gradually building subtle multiple tones which give great depth to every piece. Amélie is inspired by nature, the seasons, the changing light and the disarray of wild rambling country flowers. In each of her subjects Amélie’s rarest quality is the movement that she establishes in her paintings, she is always able to portray the soft illusion of forms being blown in a gentle breeze. This dream like quality is perhaps the romantic element her followers fall in love with.

Courtesy of Galerie Diane de Polignac