Originally from Lome (in the surroundings of Lille), I draw in a specific and spontaneous way since childhood.

Having taken some acrylic painting courses at the time of my passage in Guadeloupe, it is truly my arrival in Toulouse, in September 2002, which was decisive. I bought there all my material, and I took more courses (painting, drawing live models, modelling,…).

Since then, I've participated in many exhibitions, at first collective in a Toulouse gallery, then personal exhibitis in Toulouse bars and restaurants. Since 2006, I have been selected by many Art salons in Toulouse and surroundings areas.

Little by little my passion becomes more professional: my canvas are exposed in galleries and I took part recently in the “111 of arts” of Lyon - exhibition for the profit of sick children.

My painting revealed itself to me one year ago during work for the realization of a Corrida poster. My gestures were released: whereas previously I sought resemblance, I started to work the movement, the light and the play of colors.I especially like oppositions: clarity/obscurity, immobility/movement, blur/clearness, etc… On a luminous and calm background , I seek to reveal a character, and it comes to me from nowhere. My work is done primarily starting from the bottom: the mixture of the colors, the research of light, textures… and then I let the subject  appear on canvas. In general it appears by itself....

Karine Brailly