Michèle SAINTE-ROSE

Michèle Sainte-Rose was born in New York in 1955.

She spent the first 6 years there then moved to Martinique until 1978.  

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She stayed in Paris until 1979 then left for a long trip that would take her to Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives ....

In 1981 she joined Paris again and in 1982 embraced a modeling career. 

She has exercised all the functions related to this profession as well the catwalks of Dior, Givenchy, Hanae Mori, Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Grès, Scherrer, ..... has paraded around the world, from  1997 to 2001 was the muse of Mikael Kors then artistic director at Céline. 

She ended her career at Chanel as a cabin model.  

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All these experiences accumulated both in travel and in the midst of fabrics and colors gave her a taste for painting which she has been practicing for more than 15 years.  

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We can distinguish three periods during his career as a painter. 

In the first she made an effort to show the sheer presence of color without any other formality or addition. Color as pure vision of the eye. 

The second period focuses on highlighting a conception of space around the themes of circularity, curves, and roundness, and volutes of the universe. The always curved lines are entangled and juxtaposed without however we can detect the representation of something identifiable. 

Finally, the third period marks a real break with the first two, both in terms of method and in terms of the objectives pursued. The use of brooms and claws indicates a concern to represent volumes by one or two colors and by flat areas standardizing the canvas. 

Basically his journey can be summed up as

next: from compactness to the use of vacuum.  

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