Yvonne Lamberty
My Journey
A picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps that is why I became a painter. When I was eleven, I had a near-death experience. I saw a light that radiated a great power, and it felt like coming home. Since then, I have been accompanied by inner images that allow me to see more than my eyes could ever perceive.
To express this experience, I began painting mandalas back then, completely intuitively and without knowing what their symbolism meant. I felt that through painting, an inner, universal language was speaking to me. Many years later, after my time as a singer, I bought canvas and paints and painted the mandalas of my childhood on a grand scale. In their center, I let them shine, like the light from back then. For eleven years, I lived as a mandala artist in my large studio in the north.
Then my path led me to Cassis, and my painting opened up. Today, my images move between the abstract and the old, familiar form of the circle. I apply the paint layer upon layer and paint over much of it again, until some things disappear and others remain. And almost always, the light eventually returns, that special radiance that begins to shine from within.
Here, between the scent of the pines and the radiant sea, my large canvases and the small works on paper from my pocket studio are created. Small crossings between here and elsewhere.
Feel free to look around. Perhaps you will recognize a place you have known for a long time.
You can find my whole story, my music, and my work at yvonnelamberty.com.
No rules - just heART
your Yvonne
