This is a small double-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict floating blue lotus flowers.
Marie-Isabelle Callier started out as a graphic designer and advertising illustrator, and subsequently focused on children’s books and painting. Since 2018, she makes painted room dividers with a special technique – she paints in watercolour on waxed Japanese paper. “I coat the paper with wax to make it waterproof and give it a velvety transparency that changes with the lighting,” she explains. With her double-sided screens, Marie-Isabelle aims to create a dialogue from both sides of the screen. “The murmurs of the material continue on the other side. Depending on the light, the transparency allows us to see a certain blur, a presence of light and delicate shadows. There is an invitation to go see and experience the material on the other side.” Marie-Isabelle is currently based in Luxembourg.
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This is a small double-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict floating blue lotus flowers.
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This is a large double-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict several bare trees. This was Marie-Isabelle Callier’s first big screen with Japanese paper.
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This is a large double-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict a family of trees and the passing of time. There are small trees – like children – on one side, and grown trees on the other.
Photo: ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
This is a large double-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict several poplar trees. This work is inspired by Marie-Isabelle Callier’s childhood memories of trees along canals in Flanders.
Photo: ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
This is a large single-sided room divider screen made with Japanese paper, painted on with indigo watercolour, in a cedar frame. The paintings depict several leafy pine trees. This work refers with nostalgia to a place of the past, the memory of time spent as a child with family during stays in the South.