The Artist:
Betsy Castleman-Damez is a French-American painter, living and working in Paris. Having resided for long periods of her life in the heart of these two countries, but also in North Africa and Mexico, she remains convinced that by opening up to other cultures, we survive and enrich ourselves with the common human background.
Convinced that works of art are also ways out of chaos, she seeks to paint paintings that reflect states of mind and stories, that make the positive force of painting felt and that, like music, help people to live.
She is a graduate of the Fine Arts of Paris and has participated in many collective or solo exhibitions and salons (Centre d'Art Contemporain de Rouen, Salon de Montrouge...).
The exhibition:
The creation of the world has not ceased to question man since the dawn of time. The book of "Genesis" in the Old Testament is a founding text of our Judeo-Christian culture. Her beauty and poetry are a source of inspiration and faith.
The text describes the transition from chaos to the visible and living world. Creation proceeds by separation of the elements; the light separated from the shadow, the earth separated from the waters, until the appearance of living beings and of humanity.