Catherine Dumas-Perrot (XX) - Rêve Errance

Contemporary painting - Catherine Dumas-Perrot - Dream Wander - 121.5 x 95 cm - COA

Framed in a black American-style box frame

Catherine Dumas-Perrot currently lives in Rognac, between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.
A late start in painting that she could explain with a touch of irony by recounting an episode from her childhood at age 4, where, having watched with great attention her father repaint the living room walls white, she had wanted to do the same by adding color and joy to total abstraction! This was followed by a stern reprimand administered by her mother and perhaps a vocation was interrupted, or at least put to sleep.
She re-emerged in adulthood.
For her parents, studying the arts was not feasible. It wasn’t serious! She therefore headed after high school toward a business school, specializing in marketing.
At the age of 25, she decided to take painting classes and, in her spare time, created figurative oil paintings. And a full life organized around family, her professional life (banking) and associative work (the Red Cross) left little time for painting.
In 2008, an expatriation to the United States allowed her to pick up the brush again. She joined a group of painters in Washington, learned and refined other techniques (working with material, collage, acrylic fluids, color work...), moved toward abstract painting and acrylics. Numerous journeys and, above all, encounters with other artists enriched her personality as a painter.