BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1988 in Montréal, Canada, Mary Taffanel is a French and Canadian painter
currently living in France.
Her artistic perspective has been shaped by experiences across different countries,
influenced by the diversity of landscapes and cultures. Alongside her artistic practice,
she works as a physiotherapist.
This background impacts her relationship with gesture, rhythm, and the body in
painting.
Her artistic practice moves between lyrical abstraction and evocations of the living
world. The bursts of colour and dense compositions that characterize her work
convey an energy in motion, in a state of constant transformation.
Her paintings are held in private collections in France and internationally, (including
Canada, Belgium, and Qatar) reflecting the artist’
s desire to see her work travel the world.
Each painting is unique, offering an inner experience. A space where gesture, matter
and emotion converge, inviting the viewer to slow down and feel.
“In my painting, everything unfolds through rhythm and cadence. My understanding
of the body leads me to approach each canvas as a choreography, a continuum of
movements. My intention is to transform gesture into pictorial energy, allowing my
work to resonate with vitality and joy.”

My work explores the idea that the world is composed of invisible
constellations.
Through successive layers of paint projections, I build dense chromatic fields in which each mark acts as a particle within a larger living system.
The process is both intuitive and physical: gesture releases pigments into space, allowing movement and gravity to become part of the composition.
I seek the moment when abstraction begins to evoke natural structures.
What first appears as chaotic dispersion gradually reveals patterns reminiscent of galaxies, ecosystems, or microscopic life.
In my Living Constellations series, the canvas becomes a territory of expansion where colour behaves like energy. The surface is not a static image, but a vibrant environment whose perception shifts with the viewer’s gaze and distance.
Through this approach, I create paintings that evoke both the fragility and
vitality of the living world.

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