Irene Rousseau
From early childhood on, I had a love for nature. In later years I began to draw natural forms that I observed. This developed into a passion to understand the structures and patterns found in these forms that I had recorded in my drawings. As an artist I aim to bridge my understanding of the underlying mathematical concepts and to metaphorically represent them as an aesthetically creative work of art.
My geometric painting bears a relation to structures and patterns
found in natural forms. Forms in nature have a beauty of a
mathematical formal order. This silent vocabulary reveals the seen
and hidden structures and patterns found in the world.
My painting begins with a geometric conception on a two
dimensional plane. The module serves as a unifying element and
consists of a sum of multiples of these units that become an
interlocking pattern and are distributed over a field. The central
core consists of rotated interlocking patterns, cutting across and
overlapping contour lines that result in subdivided spaces,
disguising the geometry.There are linear short, sharp turns,
angles as well as tessellation, symmetry and rotation.
My geometric painting bears a relation to structures and patterns
found in natural forms. Forms in nature have a beauty of a
mathematical formal order. This silent vocabulary reveals the seen
and hidden structures and patterns found in the world.
My painting begins with a geometric conception on a two
dimensional plane. The module serves as a unifying element and
consists of a sum of multiples of these units that become an
interlocking pattern and are distributed over a field. The central
core consists of rotated interlocking patterns, cutting across and
overlapping contour lines that result in subdivided spaces,
disguising the geometry.There are linear short, sharp turns,
angles as well as tessellation, symmetry and rotation.