Claudine Peronne | ArtGallery.co.uk

I am a French artist based in Worthing, West Sussex, UK. My immersion in the arts world began in 2006 as I started an MA course in Transpersonal Arts Therapy at the University of Chichester. I had just completed a course in Integrative Therapy then and felt the need to deepen the inner search. The course was in no way about learning art or 'producing' artwork. It was mainly experiential with the practice of Authentic Movement, the use of Creative Arts and the keeping of a journal at its core. The point of departure was Authentic Movement practised eyes closed focussing on the body feelings and sensations and inner images....movement was immediately followed by a drawing 'depicting' our experiences... Those pictures which came to life often in a flash became the roots from which my art grew. Though this wasn't a requirement of the course, I felt compelled to work on these images between the fortnightly course meetings and spent a considerable amount of time reworking them mainly in the form of pastel drawings and small clay sculptures. The arts gradually became a vital and integral part of my life and I carried on working in this fashion until 2011. That year I joined the Shoreham Art Gallery (a collective of artists) and took part in Art Trails. I also joined the West Sussex Art Society and took part in the annual exhibitions at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts in Chichester. The 'meeting of my images with the outer world' somehow transformed my work and my art gradually moved from being entirely shaped by the inner world to being mainly shaped by the external world. A lot of the pieces I created between 2006 and 2011 never 'saw the light': their darkness and their strangeness, I felt ruled out the possibility of taking them out and among the ones I displayed only a few were marketable. My current work mainly evolved from those few images. The pictures I create at present are mainly small animals silhouette drawings often romantic. I still make small clay sculptures and in 2012 I began painting seashells in the same style as my pictures. I can't recall what led me to paint shells but I like their connection to the natural world and the depth of the sea and I like to think that their presence in my art as well as the animals silhouettes' still carry traces of the dreamy shadowy world within: The original ground from which my art emerged.

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