MARIE-AMÉLIE CHÉREAU

Marie-Amélie Chéreau is a French contemporary artist and author, known for her luminous and spiritual oil paintings, created through the combined use of palette knife and brush. Her work is rooted in lyrical symbolism— a fusion of spotaneous gestural abstraction and spiritual symbolism, where movement flows freely yet is interwoven with an intentional language of signs, colours, and textures that carry meaning beyond the visible.

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Her artistic path was born from a profound inner awakening, following a life rupture that shattered the surface of her former existence.

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In the years that followed, she reconnected with the artist she had always been — deeply influenced by her grandmother, herself a painter, and trained from childhood through her teenage years at the Martenot Art School in Paris. Painting then became both refuge and revelation. Through the act of creation, she began to recover parts of herself — some conscious, others still hidden in the layers of silence and forgetting. A portion of her memory remains inaccessible, like a locked room. It is within this space of mystery, resilience, and spiritual transmission that her art was reborn.

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Each canvas becomes an act of remembrance — of the self, of the invisible, of what has remained unsaid. Her abstract works, structured with brush lines before being sculpted with the palette knife, evoke light breaking through darkness and often reveal symbolic figures: animals, eyes, angels, or faces that seem to surface of their own accord, as if called forth by the canvas itself.