Born in the south of France, Veronique Gambier started to paint on large-scale canvases at the age of 12 developing a strong sense of color and abstraction.
She attended the College of Fine Art of Toulon and Luminy College of Fine Art in Marseille before pursuing a career in Fashion which lead her to Paris, London and New York.
Gambier constructs most of her work using over diluted acrylic, ink or watercolor on paper.
The surface lies horizontally during the process of painting and drying to avoid the effects of gravity. Her entire body, arm, hand and brush flows in a continuous motion to produce her work.
Gambier is inspired by the contradistinctive values of the medium she is using and searches for the tension within one color. Sensitive to oppositions and extremes, she learned to question the authenticity of what appears as face value. She strives to create a sense of solidity and fluidity by the repetitive, meditative action of creating within one image autonomous effects; the directness of her brushstroke against the rushing and gradual fading of the color towards the white background.
Within one or multiple brushstrokes, my intention is to suggest intimate but forward movement, a limitless movement in time.
Gambier lives in Ghent, NY.