STATEMENT
I love vintage portraits: these forgotten pictures carry so many stories, secrets, and feelings. I also like the fashion pictures that caught my eyes as a young girl (Moon, Newton, Avedon, Leibovitz, Lindbergh...). I was fascinated by their fine sensuality, their delicate attitudes, the emotion always on the edge of the paper.
I get into my imaginary portraits with these underlying inspirations. I invent characters, moments in life, and even first names. My gallery of women is built from real encounters, from a piece of music, a voice, an anecdote, a particular place or even a perfume.
My portraits are (almost) all imaginary.
Watercolor is my first medium, this technique is perfect to evoke the diffuse sensuality that I seek to express. Ink, black or colored ink, brings strength, and allows me to add the necessary contrast and modernity.
I love neon acrylic, that creates an explosion of colors, and I also do collages because they bring patterns in a very graphic way, as well as texture and a touch of casualness into my work.
I love neon acrylic, that creates an explosion of colors, and I also do collages because they bring patterns in a very graphic way, as well as texture and a touch of casualness into my work.
I paint women because I feel close to them, and because I find that they are the exact balance between rough strength, steadiness, and a kind of restless delicate fragility. This paradox touches me. I thought I would move on to other subjects, but this one fascinates me, there is still so much to explore that it has become my subject of predilection.
BIO
With a Master of Communication oriented in visual expression, Audrey Roué worked all her life as a graphic designer and creative director. Mainly in fashion and publishing industries, regularly collaborating with a Parisian studio specialized in style guides.
Her free lance status was the key to freedom and travel: she made several stopovers in different countries, the longest being Sydney, Australia, where she found the way of life she was looking for and integrated a design studio.
After a few years, she came back in Paris and founded her creative stationery brand, Casa Bonnie: sensitive, touching, illustrated papers and objects that sold on line and in many shops in France and overseas.
Audrey is now living in Marseille. This step marked her new path. She focused on her art, and released her creative expression. Since then, she illustrates stories, paints custom portraits, creates patterns.
She draws everyday, exploring more and more of her favorite subject: women and faces.
PUBLICATIONS
PORTRAIT BOOK Volume 1 - Brooklyn Art Library - 2020
RAG MAG REVIVAL by Samantha Rose Whillock from The Black Hat Press - 2020
DESSINE-MOI UN CONFINEMENT - 2020
collection of works produced during the isolation of March-April 2020
Profits donated to Secours Populaire
collection of works produced during the isolation of March-April 2020
Profits donated to Secours Populaire
KIWI'S WAY un conte moderne, by Lawrence Collins - Edilivre 2021
Poets & Writers - Sept/Oct 2021 - About the Telephone Game and Exhibition