L'Atelier

Alex-Sandrine builds her paintings the way time builds surfaces — through layering, pressure, and the slow revelation of what lies beneath. Plaster, pigment, collage, gold leaf. Each canvas is both excavation and construction: a surface worked until it holds the full history of its own making.

Abstract art with textured surface and multicolors
Abstract art piece with black and white shapes on a textured surface

Her palette moves between extremes. The deep, absorbing blacks of nocturnal matter. The luminous creams and golds of something barely born. Between them, a recurring threshold — that thin seam where two worlds press against each other and gold appears, not as ornament, but as evidence.

She works without a destination. She begins with a feeling she cannot yet name, and follows the material until something true surfaces. The forms are never planned. They arrive — fragments, standing stones, a presence in the warmth, an ember in the dark — and she recognizes them when they do.

Each painting carries a single word as its name. A threshold, not a title.