Artist statement

Shoshana Den-Macker has been making art for 20 years. She has the French and American double nationality and feels this identity has greatly influenced her inspiration. She lives in the South of France with her French husband and daughter. Both of her parents are artists (photographers, and gallery owners together).  Her father is full time sculptor, painter and mixed media artist. Her mother is an art curator and jewelry creator. Just like “Obelix” she fell in the magic artistic potion when she was little ;).

Her values are at the heart of her work. She is an environmentalist and humanist. She believes that our biggest mistake as humans has been to separate ourselves from nature.

She often paints from her photographs. Her paintings are inspired by singular moments of light, texture, color, composition and abstraction by concentrating on details. She loves finding beauty in the ordinary. She is not afraid of combining different media, any means necessary to obtain the desired effect.

She realizes that she owes a lot of what she has learned in painting through her participation in community mural painting both in classes, as paid work and volunteering. The rendering from a small painting to the wall and in keeping with the same overall image took practice and hours of work.

She loves working with other artists and has found the mural painting to be an exciting process to have different artistic perceptions brought together to brainstorm, design and then make it real on a hug scale.As well as taking her class, she has participated in two large community murals with Juana Alicia, a famous muralist in SF, California.

In the South of France she has been in over 4 artshows.

She feels creativity; this essential "joie de vivre" is to be shared with everyone.