Painter
Marlis Ladurée
Marlis Ladurée is a Franco-German artist whose work draws on spiritual traditions from around the world. For more than thirty years, she has developed a singular painting practice in which mandalas, gold leaf and precious stones compose a universe of light. Nourished by the glazing technique and by the heritage of Italian Renaissance painters, she builds her works in successive layers, giving rise to depth, transparency and chromatic intensity. Her work thus traces a passage between art, matter and the sacred dimension.
United Nations
Genève, 2000
UNESCO
Paris, 1999
Grande Arche de la Défense
Paris, 2000
Palais am Festungsgraben
Berlin, 1995 — Dalai Lama
Press bio
Marlis Ladurée is a Franco-German artist whose work draws on spiritual traditions from around the world. For more than thirty years, she has developed a singular painting practice in which mandalas, gold leaf and precious stones compose a universe of light. Nourished by the glazing technique and by the heritage of Italian Renaissance painters, she builds her works in successive layers, giving rise to depth, transparency and chromatic intensity. Her work thus traces a passage between art, matter and the sacred dimension.
Her artistic practice is inseparable from an inner quest: each mandala is a meditation in itself, a mapping of the universal soul. Her works have been exhibited at the United Nations in Geneva, at UNESCO in Paris, under the patronage of the Dalai Lama in Berlin, and at numerous international visionary art festivals.
Author of several reference works on mandalas, Marlis Ladurée also shares her art meditation method — ArtMeditate — to accompany each person in a deep and personal meditative practice.
In the studio
The voice, the gesture
Transcript (English)
The word mandala comes from Sanskrit and means sacred circle. In drawing a mandala, we create our own self. The mandala has been used since the beginning of time as a support for meditation.
Meditation on the mandala gives silence, peace and harmony, and brings stability. It allows us to look at our own world. It guides us to the source of light within us.
Painting, for me, is a moment when I receive impressions within me — when I transmit messages and images from the subtle world. What I produce is always guided by energies and influences which I analyse afterwards — never during.
Marlis Ladurée has been painting for over thirty years. Each work is born from chosen slowness — layer upon layer, with full awareness of the gesture. This film enters the studio, into the silence that precedes colour.
"Painting, for me, is a moment when I receive impressions — when I transmit messages and images from the subtle world. What I produce is always guided by energies and influences which I analyse afterwards — never during."
"Meditation on the mandala gives silence, peace and harmony. It guides us to the source of light within us."