“I do landscape portraits,” announces Laury Denoyes. “Portrait” and “landscapes”, although these two notions are often distinguished, the artist intentionally portrays nature -  mountains and forests as the fundamental subject of her practice. Landscapes are the fundamental subject of Laury’s art because from a young age, she has been walking through the same lands of her native garden, the Basque Country - and she always returns there after her numerous wanderings taking her all the way to the Land of the Morning Calm: Korea. From her travels in Asia, she returns with her backpack loaded with memories, but above all, with new materials to experiment with in order to magnify her future Basque portraits. This is how Korean silk finds its path and follows her to her workshop in Paris, France where she works the textile by stretching and applying it onto its frame thanks to a little known and used gluing technique: Flour. 

This process, respectful of the material and the living, constitutes the first step which gives birth to an immaculate landscape, soon revealed by the application of water-based colors on this diaphanous skin. 

 

First, details at the tip of the brush emerge in the center of the composition. Then from a succession of contrasts, emerges the green summits, in particular those of the Rhune or The Three Crowns whose crests draw a character lying between heaven and earth. 

 

Her approach is meant to be sincere, without fabulous ardor, just transmitting a life that exists today but whose future sustainability is uncertain. This fragility, perceptible by this spectral support, acts like a phantom that haunts every landscape.