There are 2 elements that drive my passion for painting: I have an absolute love for color and an obsession with what I call figurative abstraction--abstract work that retains a couple "recognizable" features to anchor the piece.

I grew up in a family of artists and sculptors in the South West of France in a region famous for attracting cubist artists in the 50s.  Their visions have unwittingly seeped into my artistic practice.  My landscapes, imagined and re-imagined, play with perspective by flattening depth and distorting forms to abolish and yet suggest distance at the same time.  They impart a sense of movement and invite contemplation from multiple angles.  They merge interior and exterior into an atmosphere of time suspended by lending substance and form to the layers of memory that deposits in our minds, just as sediments shape the limestone cliffs of the Valley of the Dordogne River where I spent my childhood.  

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Three Stones Gallery , Concord, MA

The Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock, VT

Styylish : Virtual marketplace for original European Antique Furniture and Contemporary Designer Pieces.

The Hyde Gallery, London, UK

Cécile Ganne holds a Ph.D. from B.U., Licences de Lettres and Art History from La Sorbonne and Toulouse le Mirail, France. 

When not creating, at her studio in SoWa (Boston’s art district), she teaches French at Wellesley College