Gesture and colour : a way of evoking an instant worth remembering

The paintings of Mathilde Sauvanon come from the domain of representation.
She only gives titles to her works for recognition purposes.
This ressembles topology more than a descriptive procedure, without having inevitably renounced all narrative content. Encountering a gesture and particular colour is for her a way of evoking a particular feeling, an instant indeed worth recalling.

(…) Must a work always necessarily be dressed up with a title? (…) For M. Sauvanon, the title enables (…) a link to be created between a work and the person who acquires it, by elected affinity of course. (…) The important point, finally, is what the other person sees, what he perceives from the statement. Ought she cast her own story over the initial contents of the painting. (…)

Above all, M. Sauvanon loves the paintings of Nicolas de Staël. At times she brings architectural motifs into her paintings. Also, she uses large tracings and is not above using calligraphic techniques (…), practising paper folding in addition (…). Her paintings are most often produced in acrylic on which she applies a special lacquer. (…)

M. Sauvanon parades her needs of expression, between Rouen and Antibes, passing from one light to the other, misty effects with more incisive contours than Mediterranean rock. (…)

Luis PORQUET, Art Critic - 05/2005

Things go the same with painters and human beings : overbearing and media coverage are sometimes in invers ration to real talent. For one, Mathilde SAUVANON is remarkable for being the opposite. Her discretion and benevolence go along with a genuine artistic personality, quite original and exceptional quality...
... The very impact for her extremely delicat shadow colours supports vivid expressive features, coherent in the framework of strictly built shapes, standing out in full light, and fraught with infinite seduction, worthy of the wost precious icons.

André Ruellan