Matter of Life

Matter of Life is the story of a six-month residency from French painter, poet and philosopher Eugenie Paultre written and illustrated by the artist. In the spring of 2018, Paultre relocated from her studio in Paris to a workshop in the English countryside. Immersed in her practice with line and pigment, this intensive residency allowed the artist to enlarge the scale of her paintings and work on large canvases up to 4 metres tall - an assignment which presented physical as well as philosophical confrontations between the artist and the blank canvas.