Céline Guichard just sent over some new images to share.  She lives and works in Angoulême, France where she has participated in various exhibitions and artist residencies.  Her new monograph, De L’ Amour was recently published in a limited edtion by Strane Dizioni, and she is currently working on a new graphic novel.

I asked about her process and influences and this was her reply (translated from French):

My pictures always born of a first stage of simple design, mostly in pen and ink, on very white paper.  Then I reworked my drawings in photoshop, collage, color, filters …
I rarely draw from nature. I have in my head a bank of images and forms that I transcribed so distorted and it is precisely this transcription, these deformations, which interest me. I like the asymmetry and imbalance, the monstrous, grotesque …

When you asked me about my tastes, I mention Toshio Saeki, the canvas “Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsboroug, the “Caprichos” by Goya and Lucien Freud, which have in common have nothing to do with my world vision. But my real references are made in literature, film and personal. I draw on my memories of childhood in the countryside, in my obsession for the human and animal biology, the abnormality, the world of dream, transgression …