Featured Artist Interview
 

Her recent works show her desire to revolutionize the approach to painting, bringing a unique style that mixes movement, colour and the sensation of a three-dimensional painting in her artwork.
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 Art Core caught up with Célia Bai Lambert preparing for an exhibition in  Switzerland, the following is the Interveiw

ART CORE: When did you first realize you were an artist?
Célia: I don’t know. I always felt different…I always had this feeling of having a gift. I feel it like a power, When I create I feel like I am possessed.

 It’s funny because when I was a little girl I wanted to be a writer, that was my first passion… and then I wanted to be a dancer, and actress, and a singer but the need to create and reinvent the world was born with me!

ART CORE: You have a unique style. Could you tell us some more about your work?
Célia: Well my work is the most faithful portrait of me in some point…So I basically try to break with everything I  learned . My work is about breaking the rules. I like to surprise myself when I am painting…I let myself be possessed by some kind of strength, that words can not explain. I put a lot of passion and rage into the paintings.  I usually use the hands and the knife to paint. I have a direct contact with the texture similar to a caress or an aggression.  I like the idea that the person who see’s my painting is watching a fireworks show.

ART CORE: What is it that inspires you to paint a particular subject?

 Célia: What most inspires me in my figurative paintings is the human body in motion, related to music and dance. For the abstracts it’s more about all the emotions that sometimes we content inside that most of the times we try not put them outside_ Emotions as anger, rage, frustration. These emotions are very inspiriting for me. 
 

ART CORE: What famous artists have influenced you, and how?

Célia: Oh my god! I would have to stay here all night to answer to this one!

 Well I basically consider myself as a contemporaneous impressionist artist. I identify myself a lot with the way that impressionist artists painted and dare to brake with the “old school” rules. So for that William Tuner is one of my favorites. The way he dissolute the forms and the light are just brilliant. He’s visionary and romantic style are very inspiriting.
Paul Cézanne is also one of my favorites, His innovating pictorial conceptions: it’s what I most admire. Me, like him, I directly paint on the cloth without a preamble draw. It’s a wonderful sensation.
So, to short a little bit the list, I end up with Picasso, of course he’s definitely a genius in a way I see art and artists in general. What I most like about Picasso is the fact that he could allow himself to do everything … 

ART CORE: What do you do for fun (besides painting)?

Célia: Besides painting I write poetry…and occasionally I sing. 

ART CORE:What inspires you to create art and how do you keep motivated when things get tough in the studio?

Célia: What most inspires me is the need to innovate.Right now it’s a different new phase, because I lost most of my life work in a fire (my studio burned), so I am in a revolution kind of state…
 A part of the old me has disappeared so I’m looking to see what this new me is going to bring. 

ART CORE: How have you handled the business side of being an artist?

Célia: At the beginning was really hard, because when you paint you never imagine that actually you are going to separate yourself from your creation. But them you get used to it specially when you see that the persons who by your art they are completely amazed by it. And it helps when you are well paid to deal with the separation

ART CORE: What advice would you give to an artist just starting out?

 Célia: I would say before listen to other people’s advices, you really have to know what you want even if you don’t know how to get, you have to stay focus! There are a lot of vultures in the art business so stay focused.