Marie-Eve Champagne

Of Rocks and Colors - BG, Original Painting

2022

Artist Comments
Artist Marie-Eve Champagne displays a metallic ore on a striking lilac background. The subject opposes the contrasting hue, putting each aspect on display. This series takes root in a profound love of minerals and their relationship to pigments, colors, and ultimately, painting. "After all, once transformed into a paste, aren’t colors just a bunch of crushed rocks on a surface?" suggests Marie-Eve. She bases the piece on a photo of blende and galena taken at the NHM.

About the Artist
Southern California transplant Marie-Eve is heavily influenced by the region’s natural environment and beauty. She works from a studio inside her San Diego home where she enjoys looking out the window to draw inspiration from the sunlight’s effect on the landscape. Marie-Eve’s work occupies a unique space at the intersection of fine art and stylized modern design, utilizing both representational and abstracted subjects. She juxtaposes organic forms with clean planes, thick outlines, and blocks of color that delight the eye. Using limited but carefully selected color palettes, Marie-Eve joyfully articulates concepts and elements of the natural world through a clean, modernist aesthetic.

Words that describe this painting: minerals, rocks, contemporary, purple, museum, realism, graphic, still life, minimal, shadow, still life, realism, acrylic painting, purple

Of Rocks and Colors - BG
Marie-Eve Champagne
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2022
30 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.5 in. d
1 lbs. 0 oz.