'As a child, my imagination mixed with the tales and legends I read with a passion, and the reality I looked at... There are often several stories in a single painting... shadows cast on the ground become characters in their own right.'
Aix-en-Provence-based artist Marie Elisabeth Merlin's vibrant work captures both the real and the ethereal. Her dreamlike, visionary painting speaks of both joy and disaster, bringing to the fore environmental concerns, the feminine spirit, family psychology and geographic displacement.