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Marie-Isabelle Callier

  • Decorative painter
  • Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Master Artisan
Marie-Isabelle Callier Decorative painter
Contact
French, English, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+352 691707979
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Dreamy landscape panels

  • • Marie-Isabelle makes double-sided paper screens
  • • Her creations have a mysterious transparency
  • • She is inspired by nostalgia and nature

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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Works

  • ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
  • ©Flavie Hengen
  • ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
  • ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
  • ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
Photo: ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
The blue lotus

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.

Photo: ©Flavie Hengen
Into the Woods

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.

Photo: ©Jean Pierre Ruelle
My Secret Garden

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
Les Peupliers

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
Lost Paradise

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.

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