Emmanuelle Pellet - Ellebasie

Emmanuelle Pellet - The Little Girl of Mount Fuji
Acrylic painting on cardboard
H: 21 cm L: 23.9 cm
Unique piece, hand-painted, signed and numbered
The work was published in the youth literature novel, The Guardians of the Star, published by Editions du mercredi.

About the work:

At the heart of a dreamt Japanese garden, Mount Fuji rises with its snowy silhouette in the golden light of dawn. Its white cone, worked with fine velvety strokes, stands out against a sky that shifts from deep blue to pale gold. In the foreground, a vermilion-painted donkey-back bridge spans a dark water basin. Further away, a pagoda-style pavilion with undulating roofs hides behind curtains of greenery and clouds trimmed into shapes.
A girl in a red dress sprinkled with cherry blossoms runs, with her back to us, toward this landscape. A flowering branch with cream corollas and red, pink, and lime-green petals frames the scene. Between Japanese print and fairy-tale illustration, the painting constructs a vision both precise and dreamlike, where Fuji serves as horizon and promise.
The red of the dress, that of the bridge, and that of the flowers form a through-line that guides the eye from the child to the mountain. The artist contrasts smooth flat areas (the pale path, the dark water) with a meticulous texture in the foliage, the corollas, and the snows of Fuji. The foreground branch creates depth and gives the viewer the sense of sharing the girl’s momentum. The scene remains suspended between dream and travel memory.

About the artist:

Art historian by training, Emmanuelle Pellet studied at the École du Louvre and then at the Sorbonne, before passing the Aggregation in Plastic Arts (3rd place). After several years of teaching, she joined the Louvre Museum as head of educational outreach.
Her career today nourishes a personal body of work where painting technique dialogues with a deep culture of images and the history of art. Her creations have been exhibited in galleries in Paris, London, Singapore and Mauritius, and have been the subject of numerous publications. They are now part of private collections in Europe, North America, Asia and the Indian Ocean.