Laetitia Gardies

Laetitia Gardies was born in 2000 and grew up on the Atlantic ocean in France, in La Rochelle City. She has her Bachelor in Applied arts and History of Art in Bordeaux, France. Now, she is currently in her last year of Master degree in Art management. 

Passionate of mountains, dance, electronic music, and human relations, she likes to put together her many inspirations by drawing strange faces related to traditional masks from different cultures around the world.

In my art, I am influenced by the spiritual processions in India and Sri Lanka where there are a lot of people with colorful costumes and masks, and under the rhythm of music they dance and share their gratitude and appreciation of how someone lived their life. So painting in public space faces similar to masks, with a lot of bright colors, I think it’s like bringing them to life and dancing like in carnaval. As when it comes to the strong outlines and the shapes of the faces, I find my inspiration in the Avant-garde artistic period. Indeed, the approach in Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism which as art movements are, to a certain extent, influenced by African art and masks, impacts the shapes of my characters.