« Can you see it? This infinite blue inside the infinite ochre? Look at the intensity of this detail! »

With hands full of silk and wool, Laurine Malengreau creates textile paintings. Layering the materials one on top of the other gives them a particular presence, which in turn gives her the feeling of primal joy. She is firmly convinced that art expands the good and goodness in things.

In search of the vital impulse, she creates strong, shimmering works with organic accents and chimerical roots.
Works that speak to you.

“I work on the floor, barefoot, in my large and bright workshop, creating freely, without limits of gesture or size. Beside me, shades of color pile up on the floor…”

Her stages of life in numerous countries, her apprenticeship with artists since childhood, her training as an art historian and her attachment to luxurious materials have led her to create pieces in wool and silk, imbued with a powerful energy.

Between East and West, his work reflects on the pure gesture that springs from moments of introspection, inspired by the singular movement of the elements.

Through her original creations, she continues the great tradition of wall hangings in an innovative and contemporary way.

“Inheritor of this traditional and contemporary know-how, I create by hand all steps of creation and production of my textiles.”

The word “nuno”, of Japanese origin, signifies tissue. The Nuno Silk technique intimately blends natural wool and silk to create a non-woven fabric, all in lightness and transparency . It has its roots in the millennial process of felting from Central Asia. Its current version is a little-known area of expertise of the felt family, whose interlacing of fibers has been refined in Australia in the last part of the twentieth century.