...Philippe-Manuel MERCIER

Kellestom seen by...Philippe-Manuel MERCIER

"... Playing subtly with flat colors and shades, from light to dark, depending on the desired texture and slight asperities of the material, she uses mixed media.

The quality of her talent, her intense capacity for work and her tenacity, but also exploration and observation around the world, constitute a source that feeds her imaginative vein. From her travels comes the inspiration that brings to her work this perspective on the unknown, its discovery, its study.

Her sensibility is not eliminated; it has become spiritual content transmitted immediately, outside of known forms. This process generates a "multidimensional" space, "a poetics of natural space," to soak it in and penetrate it ever more deeply, to exalt light and landscapes in abstraction.

Kellestom develops a gestural painting, in which she expresses her feelings. This rebirth to herself expresses the revolution of awareness as a "spiritual woman": it is the emergence of organic lyrical abstraction.

These works bear witness to a harmony that allows the greatest number of people access to contemporary painting, and for that we thank her immensely.

Philippe-Manuel Mercier
October 7, 2016