Steel blue, bronze, red and warm colours furiously Mediterranean but typical French anxiety, truly Latin. Odile Dhorme works with her colours just as a witch would mix her philtres, discreetly, always knowing where the experiment will end. She has a complete mastery of the lines, a taste for the right pigment. She works with music playing and often by herself. She has a telluric and violent relationship with creation. Barefooted on a cold floor, she takes in her canvas. Her fragility, her doubts, the imperturbable way she has marked out for herself, her quiet determination not to yield to the requirements of marketing make her an unusual artist with a studied work even in big format.
Here we catch up with her practice of sculpture, her hesitations even for a moment, faced with this art of modelling and non verbal communication. Polyphonic, gentle and sensual but as hard as granite when she has to convey the symphonic speech of a violent idea. Odile Dhorme's paintings are thought-provoking. They can upset and shake convictions.