Woman with child in her arms, white background.
Original illustration inspired by refugees around the world.
Canvas 61 x 46 cm without frame.
Sayid by Gaelle Ferradini
Gaëlle Ferradini moved with her family in 2013 to Montolieu, in Aude, after having lived 20 years in Brittany.
She first worked there as a graphic designer, but very quickly this discipline was no longer enough for her to express all her creativity, her sensitivity and explore new artistic universes. Gaëlle is curious by nature, she likes to touch everything. She learns a lot from her illustrator friend Nathalie Louveau and is as interested in new technologies as in linocut and artisanal screen printing.
Very invested, with a quiet strength, she defends humanitarian values. In 2019, the artist presented his first exhibition "Migrants, le fil rouge". A series of paintings that illustrate in intense red the drama of migrants playing out in the Mediterranean. A work that will be followed by the series "Locked up childhood", about the injustice that affects children and their families locked up in the Moria refugee camp in Greece.
In 2020 confinement confiscates all his professional projects. Cloistered at home, she takes care of her children and like many observes the passage of time. Creating in spite of everything, that's where she likes to paint daily snapshots with humor and poetry... And where she bounces back by transforming her office into a studio-gallery to exhibit her works.
Gaëlle's drawings are committed, traces of life on each painting. There is a graphic approach to colors, sure lines with intense flat tints. The brush is her weapon, the colors her windows, the spirit free to paint what she wants to say.
