“Under-glasses, short-lived flowers, keep their natural glitters”…
That could be a love affair between ART& NATURE!

This is the creed of this 32 years old French Artist, Bachelor of Psychology, who has a passion for gardening and ecological conscious. In fact, nothing seems to predispose her for an artistic career after her communication diploma, but chance and coincidence have lead her way to urge her to develop this new concept of association: “ natural flowers & paintings”.
Even if since ever in craftsman’s trade, pressed-flowers have been well tried, especially in U.K. last century, her harmoniously blends of flowers, leaves, branches with impressionist, figurative or naïve paintings are quite original.
Classic or modern still-lives, royal bouquets, landscapes, animals, persons, and restoration of old antiques frames, by this particular technique, get an amazing “3-dimensional”picture.
Moreover, bloom and colors, are protected by a specific method invented by Carine to preserve “ vegetal material “ so as to blend with pastel painting or acrylic. Although this preservation needs a lot of time and an extreme meticulousness, conservation against corruption worth the trouble…
There is the significant distinction in comparison with past works including pressed-flowers that slowly lose their freshness, like Nature wants to be…
So, beyond an Artistic originality; beyond the tribute to Mother Nature, source of each artistic inspiration; that is also a sort of “therapy” against impermanence of all things.
As matter of fact each under-glass flower, like sometimes lost butterflies, set fixed in its endless bloom beauty, for a contemplative gaze.
That perhaps the reason why these creations seem “appeasing” their lovers, more and more numerous in Carine’s area of southwest of France, who want to purchase these “springs snapshots” like others undergo a therapy against blues. Experiencing again this “state of Grace” that only Nature can afford when we look around us with a sheer glance.
If these pictures charm so much those who look at them, that maybe perhaps they can touch and reach every one soul in search of pureness and absolute…
Maybe this psychotherapist has find in her applied Art a new way of harmonize the universal rhythm of Nature with modern way of life.
But she prefers said modestly: “I just enlightening Mother Nature masterpieces. We can find this pure beauty everywhere we look around us, but we rarely admire and take no notice of these wonders.
Beyond the attraction of my pictures, I would like to help people to realize that real wealth is often the most humble (such as wild carrot that could be compared with lace). But these wonders are fragile and need to be respected and protected before men’s unawareness destroy them by mankind’s selfish.”

A way of thinking too!

Carine Millas.