BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1988 in Montreal (Canada), Mary Taffanel is a French, Canadian artist and physiotherapist currently living in France. From a childhood spent across several countries, she developed an open-minded outlook, shaped by diverse landscapes, interwoven cultures, and vibrant encounters.
Her paintings reflect this cosmopolitan life, through an artistic approach that oscillates between lyrical abstraction and evocations of nature.
She has developed a pictorial language in which color becomes vibration and energy.
The chromatic bursts and dense compositions found in her works convey this sensibility.
Her artworks are collected both in France and internationally (Canada, Qatar, Belgium, etc.), driven by the artist’s intention to let her work travel the world.
Each canvas, unique in itself, invites to an inner experience where imagination and emotion meet.
“In my painting, everything unfolds through rhythm and cadence.
As a physical therapist, I approach each canvas as a choreography, a continuum of movements.
My intention is to transmute bodily gesture into pictural energy, allowing my works to resonate with pulse and joy.”« La terre est bleue comme une orange » L’amour la poésie, Paul Éluard (1929).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the idea that the world is composed of invisible constellations.
Through layered projections of paint, I build dense fields of color where each mark acts like a particle within a larger living system.
The process is both intuitive and physical: the gesture releases pigment into space, allowing movement, gravity, and chance to participate in the composition.
I am focused in the moment where abstraction begins to resemble natural structures.
What initially appears as a chaotic dispersion slowly reveals patterns similar to those found in galaxies, ecosystems, or microscopic life.
In my series Living Constellations, the canvas becomes a territory of expansion where color behaves like energy.The surface is not a static image but a vibrant environment that continues to shift depending on the viewer’s perception and distance.
Through this process, I seek to create paintings that evoke both the fragility and the vitality of the living world.
