Léa Pastier

“I’m a young French artist who currently resides in Angers, France. I have an Illustration Art Diploma (Diplôme des Métiers d’Art, option Illustration) and I’m currently studying at Angers’s School of Fine Arts and working on illustrated books and board games. 

My work fluctuates between comics, dream stories and abstraction. There is something very intuitive and emotive in the way I create. I’m very interested in exploring themes of contrast and ambiguity. If I had to simply describe my work, I would say that it’s a bittersweet story, full of hope and melancholy, told through the eyes of a child. I use pink a lot in my art because to me it’s a colour that oscillates between childlike sweetness and carnality. I reinvent my memories with blurry reminiscences of past moments. My work doesn’t explicitly reveal a concept or message, because I love alluding to ideas and leaving a door open to imagination, myths and legends. 

I’m in love with the work of Cy Twombly, Karel Appel, Esther Pearl Watson and Katherine Bradford. I also really enjoy Larry Clark’s and Harmony Korine’s movies, because they show a teenage fever, young people at the edge of the abyss, with such a benevolent, empathetic look, far from any stereotype about a corrupted youth.”

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