The award-winning artist who goes by the name HERMINE expertly crafts lithe sensual forms in bronze. These sculptures juxtapose smooth, rounded surfaces with sharp contours that beg to be touched. The artist’s oeuvre may focus primarily on the human form, but she also works with animal and abstract subjects. She seeks to present the most innate force within her subjects. “I capture the body by reducing the subject to its simplest expression in order to penetrate and inhabit it,” explains HERMINE. The sculptures are not large, yet they exude an undeniable power and naturalness. The female torso becomes simultaneously physical and fluid, a pure convergence of concrete shapes and flowing lines that conveys the strength and beauty of femininity. When HERMINE forgoes realistic representation she maintains the ability to speak to us directly. Simple graphic forms become elemental narratives of humanity while recalling natural forces. Here she links our human heritage with nature itself, in a powerful statement about our innate relationship to the earth and each other.
HERMINE lives in Quebec.