fabrics
paint
layers of fabric drift across the surface like fragments suspended in air, creating subtle shifts between opacity, light, and shadow. The nearly monochromatic palette gives the work a hushed and immaterial quality, where forms seem to appear and recede simultaneously. Its presence feels delicate and contemplative, evoking pause, suspension, and emotional quietude.
fabrics
paint
auburn surfaces surround a pale fractured form that feels suspended between concealment and exposure. The restrained palette and layered textures create a muted warmth, giving the work an intimate and timeworn presence. The piece evokes quiet reassurance through simplicity, where softness emerges from restraint rather than excess.
fabrics
paint
black layered surfaces absorb nearly all light, allowing texture and form to emerge only gradually. The restrained monochrome palette creates an atmosphere that feels severe yet refined, where subtle variations become charged with presence. The work carries a controlled intensity, balancing concealment and display, as though emotion has been carefully veiled beneath the surface.
fabrics
paint
pale layered fabrics unfold across the surface like shifting landscapes, maps, or windswept terrain. The monochromatic whites and softened creams create a feeling of vastness and quiet displacement, where the absence of strong color allows texture and movement to guide the eye. The work evokes a sense of yearning without destination, suspended between intimacy and distance, familiarity and escape.
fabrics
paint
intertwined fabrics spread across the surface like fragments caught mid-collapse, resisting any clear hierarchy or fixed reading. The pale tones and shifting folds create confusion between textile, shadow, and bodily form, allowing the eye to wander without resolution. The work feels instinctive and elusive, as though meaning is continuously forming and unraveling at the same time.
palo santo
paint
created in collaboration with Palo by aimée & mia using reclaimed wood remnants from their products, the work explores the meeting point between past materiality and renewed gesture. The soft whites and muted grey-blue tones settle into a grainy, mineral-like surface where texture becomes almost atmospheric.
emilie.larocque.eal@gmail.com
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Inspired by the beauty of organic and recycled materials, my work combines fabrics, dried flora, Japanese papers, resin, paint and found textiles to build layered surfaces that exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. I often begin by collecting and arranging materials intuitively, selecting textures, transparencies, colors, and fragments before slowly assembling them into sculptural surfaces. Some works are sealed in resin to create a wet, preserved finish, while others remain raw and matte, allowing the materials to breathe more naturally.
I also create many custom pieces through a collaborative process where clients share moodboards, atmospheres, palettes, and references, allowing each work to emerge as something deeply personal and emotionally specific. Through texture, layering, and preservation, my practice seeks to capture fragile emotional states and transform them into physical spaces that can be felt and remembered.
Oscillations - Tanthem
Montreal, Quebec
2024
Vivarium
Anna Babin
Montreal, Quebec
2021
Resin
Silicone
Latex
Tea staining
Wood
Japanese paper
Handmade paper
Tissue paper
Cotton fabric
Linen fabric
Mesh fabric
Layered textiles
Found textiles
Dried flowers
Organic matter
Plant materials
Pigment
Gloss medium
Gel medium
Modeling paste
Fabric draping
Surface layering
Embedded materials
Relief surfaces
Textile assemblage
Mixed media
Last Updated 24.10.31
japanese paper
fabrics
paint
resin
a composition where colors seem to melt into one another like fading memories. The glossy, wet-like surface gives the piece a fluid and shifting presence, while the muted mixed tones create a vintage sensibility, as though the image has aged softly over time. The painting feels hazy and atmospheric, suspended between erosion and preservation, where forms are sensed more than fully defined.
fabrics
resin
a piece rooted in endurance beneath fragility. The layered textures and raw surfaces feel both delicate and resistant, holding tension between softness and strength. It evokes the quiet force of something weathered, tested, and still standing.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
a playful and comforting composition filled with softness and spontaneity. The pink and white tones create a sweet, airy warmth, while the funky textures and movement give the piece a lively, carefree energy. It feels nostalgic and intimate, like a fleeting joyful moment suspended in color.
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
soft ivory fabric flows around darker forms, while the intricate crochet centerpiece carries traces of memory, preservation, and transformation, where softness meets resilience. Handmade becomes timeless.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
an elegant tension between delicacy and intensity. The elongated composition feels fluid and theatrical, where deep blood-red tones move like a slow unfolding gesture across lace-like textures. It evokes something whispered rather than spoken, intimate, dramatic, and quietly haunting, as if the painting is holding a secret within its layers.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
dried flowers
resin
a quiet unveiling through texture, softness, and organic form. The cream tones and muted greens create an earthy stillness, while the dried flowers feel preserved in time, like fragments gently revealed rather than arranged. The piece carries a sense of honesty and calm exposure, where beauty exists in what is left natural and untouched.
fabrics
tea
resin
a calm and grounding composition rooted in earthy beige and brown tones. The layered textures feel warm and familiar, evoking the comfort of natural spaces and quiet interiors. The piece carries a sense of rest and belonging, like returning to somewhere deeply intimate and safe.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
a restrained composition shaped by contrast and subtle tension. The dark pigments create depth and enclosure, while the beige elements interrupt the heaviness with traces of warmth and fragility. The piece feels contemplative and cinematic, like a dimly lit fragment suspended between shadow and memory.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
dried flowers
resin
the pink tones bring softness and warmth, while the embedded dried flowers preserve delicate moments within the surface of the work. The textures build gently over one another, giving the piece a sense of memory, affection, and quiet femininity.
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
a collision of atmosphere and restraint. Dense dark surfaces stretch like a horizon after dusk, while burnt orange interruptions flicker through the composition like signals or distant heat. The accumulation of layers creates the sensation of fragments existing simultaneously, moments obscured, revealed, and buried again — leaving the piece suspended between expansion and limitation.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
layered white fabrics resemble clothing, sheets, or traces of someone recently there, creating an atmosphere that feels personal and lived-in. The soft blue lines and subtle dark reds act almost like emotional residues beneath the surface, giving the painting a delicate tension between tenderness and unrest. It evokes the memory of someone through texture alone, gentle, elusive, and deeply human.
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
a restrained composition built through nuance and quiet accumulation. The milky whites, creams, and beige tones dissolve softly into one another, creating an atmosphere that feels suspended between material and light. The texture appears almost fluid, as though the surface is slowly emerging or thinking itself into form. The piece carries a meditative presence, subtle, contemplative, and softly evolving.
𓍯 Custom
japanese paper
fabrics
resin
a suspended emotional landscape, drifting between memory and imagination. The piece feels dreamlike and instinctive, where warmth, texture, and movement blur together into something intimate and subconscious. It evokes the feeling of being lost in thought, a quiet moment where emotion exists before language.
fabrics
resin
a corporeal and ethereal composition where wet, veils, or preserved remains. The silicone-like textures in pale pinks, creams, and flesh tones create an unsettling softness, blurring the boundary between body and material. The piece feels suspended in a transitional state, intimate, vulnerable, and otherworldly, as though caught between presence and disappearance.