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One could say that it was Martine Amiel’s attendance of the Academy of Beaux Arts in Paris since the age of four that led her to sculpting. But in fact, it was a different path that brought her to her passion.
Martine Amiel has been drawing for as long as she can remember and has always loved to emphasize details of the human body in her work. Although her adult life led her to a technical career in computer sciences; she could not abandon her earliest, most innate interests. As a child, her artistic eyes would ceaselessly analyze everything in her surroundings. She would, on a daily basis, observe, study and admire the influence of light on objects, noticing the impact of its intensity and how contrasts are created.
Man Ray has been her ultimate artistic reference. However, it was discovering Volti in a gallery in Deauville, which awakened in her such a powerful feeling of admiration that she immediately enrolled in the School of Sculpture of Sevres, followed by the School of Sculpture of Paris. She worked hard and discovered the sculptors whose work became her references: Brancusi, Zadkine and Archipenko.
A few years later in Brussels, she was elevated into another arena of expression by becoming the apprentice of a well seasoned sculptor. He helped her to express herself openly through her sculpture by allowing her creativity to completely saturate her work. And so she detached herself from her forerunners and found her own expression.
In speaking with Martine about her work it is very clear that each of her pieces has a unique story. They all come from a profound feeling, an important message to communicate. Most of them originated from a story that only Art could tell. As she shares, “I start a sculpture from a feeling.” And thus, is how she creates.
Her messages are powerful; they address her surroundings, her family. They are messages of love and tenderness.
Today, in her wish to address Women, she pursues her work with the utmost sincerity, and decides to quiet her modesty and broaden her reach in order to spread the messages of her heart.
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