Amelie Ducommun, Sensitive Water Mapping 135, oil on canvas, 76.5" x 51", 2017

$12,500.00

Amélie Ducommun is a French-Swiss artist living and painting in Barcelona. The Water Mapping series of paintings is inspired by nature, and specifically by the power of water. She is particularly masterful at using her method and medium to create imagery that both refers to the way the natural world looks, and also captures ephemeral memories and transcendent emotions that nature can also inspire. Like memories, her imagery is layered, and flickers in and out of our field of vision, with forms disappearing and reappearing on the canvas.

Amélie Ducommun is a French-Swiss artist living and painting in Barcelona. The Water Mapping series of paintings is inspired by nature, and specifically by the power of water. She is particularly masterful at using her method and medium to create imagery that both refers to the way the natural world looks, and also captures ephemeral memories and transcendent emotions that nature can also inspire. Like memories, her imagery is layered, and flickers in and out of our field of vision, with forms disappearing and reappearing on the canvas.

With this series, Ducommun is also playing with an ambiguity between “micro and macro,” creating immersive scenes that make the viewer feel like they are under water, with sea life surrounding them. But a simple shift in perspective also allows one to also read the images as a beach, with seaweed, stones, and water washing back and forth over the surface.