Meeting with Laurence Amélie, co-founder of Illustre Paris
Meeting with Laurence Amélie, painter and co-founder of the Maison Illustre Paris, whose creations are directly inspired by her magnificent paintings. Her work around flowers, bewitches, invites to dream and to stroll. Gourmand, generous, Laurence is inspiring and inspired, she likes to meet, share and also tell, through her paintings, but not only! A set of synergies which compose with singularity her universe filled with poetry.
Laurence, can you introduce yourself?
Hello, my name is Laurence Amélie, I have become an artist in spite of myself, and I am obsessed by the colours of nature that envelops us.
What is your background and what brought you to painting?
Since kindergarten, I have been drawing flowers, horizons and foliage, through tumultuous skies. I was a fashion designer for children and I discovered my artistic faculties late in life, at the age of 35. From a violin d'Ingres, painting became a passion, almost an obsession, and now I am happy to be able to paint whenever I feel the inspiration.
What inspires you as an artist on a daily basis?
The light, the lights, the way the tones play with the prism, everything is harmony, the colours, the music, the dawn, the dusk... Every moment of the day is potentially a source of inspiration for me.
How did the Illustre Paris project come about?
With my partner and co-founder Elodie Delmas, we wanted our universe to be taken from the canvas and invade the everyday life of those who want it. That at every moment in the house, we could find our little moment of poetry on everyday objects.
Can you tell us more about your way of working? How you approach your paintings and creations with Illustre Paris?
No one can say what a painting will look like. You have to have the courage to let your mind fly without constraint like a butterfly. Then when the canvas is born, if you want to use it for Illustre Paris, you choose a detail (for a cushion, a stole, a bag) which will be photographed and processed in ultra high definition, for a quality of printing which each time leaves us amazed, by its freshness, its precision and the rendering of its watercolours
Laurence Amélie with one of the paintings that inspire the objects of Illustre Paris
What do you consider to be the essential decorative object?
In my opinion, an object is not indispensable because of its function, but because of the emotion that its impression brings to everyday life.
