After around twenty years spent in the Paris region, where she taught in a hotel high school, Karine Costanzo settled 3 years ago with her family in Flagnac, near Pagax.
An artist at heart, she hung on until the end of June at Envol de Cransac, her exhibition-sale of paintings, sold from €30 to €1,000, which she titled “Echappées Aveyronnaises”.
“I know Aveyron well having come there many times,” she explains, her partner being a native of Flagnac and admitting that this department is home to some very beautiful sites. “I have always been attracted by pictorial art, particularly by the movement of the impressionists who dared to leave the workshops to do something else, and I am also attracted by digital tools, which open up lots of perspectives. settling in Pagax, I found myself with free time, so it was up to me to occupy it in the best way.”
Painting and digital technology fascinate her, she tried to combine the two arts.
“It was photos of sites that I took that gave me the answer. Totally self-taught and without knowing what I would end up with, I started working on them with digital tools,” explains the artist. .
Little by little, his artistic approach asserted itself. “I quickly realized that to rework these photos, I needed very good quality photos. This is why I often call on professionals, particularly those who use drones for aerial shots.”
In these photos she then intervenes on the landscapes, buildings, shapes or contours, accentuating with lines all the elements that she has previously selected. “I keep the ones I want and I remove anything that seems to weigh down the visual, to purify it, without distorting it,” explains Karine Costanzo. “Like the impressionists, I have my palette but on the computer and I choose the shades, which are not necessarily the natural ones of the photo. Once my work is finished, I send it to the printer, and we finalize together the paintings, which are all unique creations.”
She then takes the time to select the right support.
“If I want to obtain a matte effect, I use an expanded polymer plate, for a matte and shiny effect, it’s an aluminum composite plate, and for a shiny effect, acrylic glass on which I screen print elements, areas, with metallic ink.”
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