MARIE-ISABELLE CALLIER

In addition to writing and drawing, Marie-Isabelle Callier is best known for painting, often using watercolor and wax. Many of these paintings are about feelings and the sublime emotional state that she seeks to record, capturing the deep emotional impressions of life before they vanish. Her works play with legibility and illegibility, not revealing anything too specifically and in doing so, allowing the viewer to find his or her own interpretation. Choosing contradictory materials such as water and ink on wax to evoke shapes, her work is not interested in specific shapes but the direct emotions they suggest, especially in their relationships with others. Callier’s work often depicts figures, landscapes, and trees, shifting between the abstract and the figurative. She is deeply inspired by nature and the strength and verticality of trees. There exists a distance of ambiguity and emotional impact, trying to reach the emotions of everyone by giving memory and life to her own.