Lucie Lith

I was born in 1973, in Toulon. I work and live in Le Pradet, France.

Inspired by the colors of Pop Art and Urban Art, I create stencils to which I mix text to tell stories that everyone will perceive according to his sensitivity. I worked for many years in operational marketing in Paris and then managed a family business in the South of France.

Self-taught, I decided to devote myself fully to painting in 2015, but I have been creating since I was very young. I first developed my sensitivity and creativity through writing poems and several novels, before discovering collage in 2008. I reworked images that I printed, cut and tore before gluing on canvas or wood, then I added paint and text to enrich my message.

Starting in 2016, I gradually focused on painting and urban art techniques, using aerosol and creating stencils that I started mixing in text. My current work pushes the marriage of letters and paint a little further. The words now integrate the characters and the decor to compose a face, reveal a thought, illustrate an attitude or claim a conviction. More complex, my creations are often made of dozens of layers of stencils that I destroy once the work is completed. The colors seem to fit into each other to reveal subjects with an unstructured look, symbolizing the imperfection of this world while displaying a unity that brings hope.

Each of my works is a message and has the ambition to tell a story. For me, it is only the emotion that counts. What matters to me is not to please or displease, but to touch. The quest for an ideal is omnipresent. Each painting stems from the desire to question the other, to let the imagination run free and to reinvent reality, in order to question the world in which we live, but also to remind us of the essential values such as love, hope or freedom.