Harmony, serenity & creativity

Muriel Evangelista spent seven years at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in different workshops - drawing, painting, modeling. Her whole life has been influenced by her time there, where everything was directed to harmony and serenity to leave room for creation. Despite changes in her life, places, and the need to work for a living, she has always associated creativity and aesthetics with everything she has done.

Muriel’s medium is acrylic and pigments. Though a painter of the figurative, she sometimes likes to free herself from reality, but as often the abstraction resides in the figuration, there is always a reminiscence of the recognized image. It is at this time she says her movement becomes more nervous and more incisive, where she will use colors to express her feelings and orientate the spectator.

For pure figuration, black and white is always her favourite to eliminate any form of emotion that would be affected by the contribution of color. Everyone is able to feel their own sensation and their own poetry, she says.

Today, she paints in her studio in La Rochelle and soon together with Laurent Mohn, she will open an art gallery at 17 rue du Minage.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Happiness is ephemeral and to be familiar with it you have to be content with every little moment of life, open your eyes and your heart

What is your biggest extravagance?

To be lovingly passionate for life

What is your current state of mind?

Enthusiastic

When and where were you happiest?

Putting happiness on a value scale is difficult for me

Where would you most like to live?

A place where nature, the beauty of things, art, friendship and love come together in harmony

What is your most valuable asset?

Life

What do you appreciate the most in your friends?

Fidelity, loyalty, sincerity

Who is your fictional hero?

My Lucky Star (film) 

Who are your heroes in real life?

I don’t have any

What is your motto?

Remain free

What is your favorite smell?

The immortelles on Ile de Ré

What smell do you associate with your fondest childhood memory?

The smell of seashells in the Mediterranean sun aged 3 or 4 and the smell of my rubber giraffe inflatable at 2 or 3.

Do you have a secret place on the Ile de Ré?

A place where the sea at high tide makes an undulating surf and at low tide leaves a good smell of kelp.