"SOIES" ©

ORIGINAL TECHNIQUE USING SILK CANVAS. A NEW MEANS OF EXPRESSION IS BORN:
LIKE OIL, GOUACHE, WATER-COLOUR AND MANY OTHER ART TECHNIQUES, HERE ARE NOW THE "SILKS" © SEE VIDEO!

The originality of these paintings comes from the use of a silk canvas instead of a cotton canvas. This fabric captures colours and gives them a lustrous sheen and a very special brilliance: the paintings seem to have their own life, the colours vibrate and are never static. The smallest light source brings them to life. They look translucent as if there was a light source behind... And there is none!

To elaborate this personal technique and to make sure the colours would not fade, I had to adapt industrial techniques to my needs. This was a long process of research and experimentation, with numerous failures and successes... Finally I was able to manage and domesticate these colours and turn them into my own technique. Their fastness and stability is now guaranteed by a more than 40 years experience.

Colours saturate the silk and become an integral part of the fabric. Each brush stroke, in colour or in wax, is permanent: nothing can be changed or corrected, if the result is not satisfying, I have to start all over again! This preserves the spontaneity of the gesture, which is essential. Thus, every piece is unique. The silk is then stretched on a special white board and framed.

Prisca

My technique explained by Arnold Kohler:

"Her works seduced at once and retained the attention... as well by a certain poetic quality as by the originality of a technique also in direct relation with the style, and even the inspiration of the artist. In the paintings that Prisca names her "soies" ©, the textile support receiving the colour is indeed fundamental..."

..... "ses œuvres ont d'emblée séduit et retenu l'attention ..... par l'originalité d'une technique d'ailleurs en relation directe avec le style, voire l'inspiration de l'artiste. Dans les tableaux que Prisca nomme ses "soies" le rôle du tissu support de la couleur est en effet fondamental: la soie fine fait vibrer la lumière et chanter les couleurs à la cire liquide dont elle à été imprégnée au pinceau. Pareil procédé conduit à simplifier le dessin et oblige à une parfaite spontanéité, les tons pouvant toutefois être renforcés par imprégnations successives. Maîtresse de cette technique qu'elle inventa, Prisca crée des œuvres affranchies de la réalité de perception immédiate" .....

Arnold Kohler Art critic - Geneva 1987