The Shadow, Lou Benesch
watercolour, ink and coloured pencil on paper
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"The Dress" by Lou Benesch.
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The Garden, 2022 Lou Benesch
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Lou Benesch | The New Yorker
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Rising Waters by Lou Benesch.
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Lou Benesch
Two hydras, one body. Les camélias ont déjà fleuri.
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Midnight Tide, 2023
Lou Benesch
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
24 x 18 in
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Lou Benesch (1989 - ), "The Moon" (2022).
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Lou Benesch, The Chase, 2022, watercolor ink and pencil on paper
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LOU BENESCH is a French-American illustrator, based in Paris.
'I was born in France in 1989, my mother is French and my father is American. Although I’ve never properly lived in America, I’ve traveled there a lot and I was raised with a very strong sense of these two identities. I was raised in two worlds, one was filled with antiques, old portraits of ancestors, stories of castles in the French countryside and large family gatherings. In the other one, I was surrounded by an incredible collection of Native American art, a love for the outdoors, a thirst to understand how things work and how, when asking these questions, you can easily find yourself on a deep spiritual quest.
A lot of my work is inspired by tales of all kinds, Greek myths, fairy tales or novels… I also think personal memories and dreams can start to look and sound like these stories as time infuses magic into them. That’s probably why I’ve been calling “Contes” the personal practice I refer to – it’s a working title but it was the first one that came to me as I could see myself building from old myths, symbols, memories and creating my own tales."
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