Artist Delphine Lebourgeois has been quite the buzz word of late, especially since her resounding success at this year’s The Other Art Fair in London. We love her delicate and surreal work, with its intense use of colour…
Delphine is a collage artist in the making of her images, as well as in the way her ideas are built: incongruous elements play with each other and compose a beautiful, surreal and often humorous universe.
Fascinated by hats and other head-dresses, many of her figures are adorned by a piece of excentric millinery, sometimes no less than a fragment of land or a firing volcano. These headpieces act as poetic metaphors hinting at the subject’s dreams, fears and aspirations.
Delphine’s work tackles intense emotional states and desires to achieve a balance between a conceptual approach and a seductive, decorative aesthetic. She creates an imagery that is nourished by her love of quirky narratives and beautiful designs and invites us all to wonder with her. And wonder we do…
Delphine graduated from Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and from Central St Martins and has been in London ever since working as an artist and illustrator for more than ten years with clients including The Guardian, Penguin Books, Macmillan & Bloomsbury. Delphine received the IMAGES 29 Critics Award in 2009 and has more recently been selected for the prestigious 3×3 international competition 2011.
Delphine’s images are poetic, yet conceptual and stray away from the obvious. As she explains: “My work is about solving problems with elegant, economic and surprising solutions. I am happy when I find an idea that startles me enough that I can start drawing.”
You can see Delphine’s works in A Little Bit of Art and Gas Gallery on CultureLabel with limited edition prints ranging from £95 to £750.00
