✦Interview—Inde Réunion·Réunion Island
Interview: Marlis Ladurée, painter of contemporary mandalas
"Painting is for me the opportunity to free impressions, to receive and transmit messages." A conversation with the artist about her practice, her vision of the contemporary mandala, and the glazing technique inherited from Renaissance masters.
- ✦Discovery of mandalas during a presentation by Brigitte Neveux at the Hatha Yoga Federation, 1989
- ✦The contemporary approach influenced by Carl Jung and his concept of the 'European Mandala'
- ✦Glazing technique: 20 layers of translucent oil paint superimposed, sometimes over several months
- ✦A meditative state as a condition for creation — the studio as a 'small celestial palace'
- ✦Collectors from around the world, from the spiritual to pure aesthetics