Artiste
Séverine de La ChapelleAbout the Artist
Séverine de La Chapelle is originally from Bordeaux, France. As a child, she would create art with her grandmother, which instilled in her passion for the touch of beautiful materials and fabrics at a young age. In 1995, she enrolled in the École Blot, in Reims, a school of decorative arts, learning many skills she uses today. Moving to Singapore in 2005 expanded Séverine’s artistic horizons. She began studying with a Japanese artist, Maya Takashi, who instantly identified synergies with Séverine’s style and East Asian artistic traditions. Séverine continues to be inspired by traditional and contemporary Asian art, such as the Dansaekhwa artistic movement. In 2016, the family left Singapore for Portugal. During the pandemic, Séverine rekindled her love of paper as both a support and medium in art. She explored different ways to give texture and relief to paper, with mediums such as acrylic paint, gold leaf, golden wax, and watercolour. Tools in hand, she created her own paper carving technique using thick pure cotton paper and different scalpel blades. All of her work is now created using that technique.
Mediums
Paper Sculptures
Upcoming Exhibition
More Details to Come SoonVerbier, Switzerland
End 2024 – Date to be confirmed
Details to be confirmed
Exhibitions
Vernissage Sculpture, Galerie d’Anières – 16-25 November 2023 – Anières, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition – 23-27 September 2023 – Estoril, Portugal
HOMA Lisboa – 24-28 May 2023 – Lisbon, Portugal
L’Art Comme à La Maison – 5 May-4 June 2022 – Nyon, Switzerland
Festival de arte contemporânea– All you Need is Art – 23-27 March 2022 – Cordoaria Nacional , Lisbon, Portugal
Olhar o Outro – 14-17 October 2021- Sintart Gallery, Sintra, Portugal
Bas-Relief paper sculpture
About the Art
Using different scalpel blades and hand movements, I am able to carve the paper in a variety of ways, manipulating its texture to create complex light-dark contrasts. The paper I use is acid free, 100% cotton, 640g/m^2. Paper has a capacity to reflect light and to carry shadows. I aim to create harmony and energy from the myriad contrasts, textures, and curves of my paper sculpting. My deepest wish is to translate the meditative process of paper carving into a positive, soul healing experience, to remind others of the power of hope and of the resilience they can find within themselves.