Catherine Goursolas

Catherine Goursolas is a painter.

Her primarily abstract work invites the viewer to enter a pictorial space. She explores through gesture and color the relationships between form and space with a desire for chromatic minimalism. She attempts each time to achieve an expression that is both synthetic, solid, evident, and sensitive. Her subject is painting itself, its vibration, its expressiveness, and the space of silence it inhabits. Painting, often quite fluid for speed and lightness of execution, is made in the studio with pigments and acrylic resins.

After studying art history, she began painting in various studios and quickly started her personal work. In 1995, seeking a critical eye on her work and a more contemporary approach, she spent two years in the Bordeaux studio of artists Deborah B. Bowman and Patrick Marty, where she was able to develop a demanding practice. She then continued her pictorial work alone and began to show it alongside a teaching career.

Since 2019, she shares a large studio in the French Jura with her partner, also a painter, dedicates herself exclusively to creation, and regularly participates in exhibitions and studio openings.