Nympheus Luminansis, THE WATER LILIES OF LIGHT GENESIS OF THE Project 
GENESIS OF THE Project
“10 PAINTINGS, 10 ATMOSPHERES, THE PROJECT OF A LIFETIME, A TRIBUTE TO CLAUDE MONET,
A HYMN TO COLOR AND LIGHT”
A HYMN TO COLOR AND LIGHT”
Why the title “Nympheus Luminansis, the Water Lilies of Light”?
Why this exhibition title, you may ask? Well, because when I visited Claude Monet's garden, it was the first and only thing that came to mind. A very strong intuition... almost inexplicable. A name that almost came out of nowhere.
Nympheus Luminansis means water lilies of light. I love archaeology, and it's as if I (the archaeologist, the artist) had named a find, something that was in me deeply at the sight of these water lilies. I imagined an archaeologist making THE discovery of his life, something wonderful and unique that transported him, filled him with wonder, moved him to the very depths of his being.
Of course, it's a title that doesn't exist and has never been used, because I created and imagined it. It's unique. I wanted something that stood out and had never been used before by any artist. I'm the creator, the “mother”. I wanted people to automatically think of my paintings when they said these words, so that my paintings and these words would be inseparable.
Each painting has its own name and surname: “Nympheus Luminansis” as surname and first name, which characterizes it. The first painting, “Nympheus Luminansis” was given the first name of “the dance of light”!
Of course, my work is a tribute to Claude Monet's water lilies, to the extraordinary botanical creation he did in his water garden, but what I've created is my own vision of this aquatic world where the seasons play with time, light and color.
I wanted softness, beauty, calm and serenity to offer visitors to the exhibition, a bubble of happiness to bring them in a sometimes chaotic world.
Nympheus Luminansis means water lilies of light. I love archaeology, and it's as if I (the archaeologist, the artist) had named a find, something that was in me deeply at the sight of these water lilies. I imagined an archaeologist making THE discovery of his life, something wonderful and unique that transported him, filled him with wonder, moved him to the very depths of his being.
Of course, it's a title that doesn't exist and has never been used, because I created and imagined it. It's unique. I wanted something that stood out and had never been used before by any artist. I'm the creator, the “mother”. I wanted people to automatically think of my paintings when they said these words, so that my paintings and these words would be inseparable.
Each painting has its own name and surname: “Nympheus Luminansis” as surname and first name, which characterizes it. The first painting, “Nympheus Luminansis” was given the first name of “the dance of light”!
Of course, my work is a tribute to Claude Monet's water lilies, to the extraordinary botanical creation he did in his water garden, but what I've created is my own vision of this aquatic world where the seasons play with time, light and color.
I wanted softness, beauty, calm and serenity to offer visitors to the exhibition, a bubble of happiness to bring them in a sometimes chaotic world.
Nympheus Luminansis :
An original artistic neologism coined by Laurence Saunois, who has created a series of paintings devoted to light as a true artistic medium.
- Nympheus: from the Latin nymphaea, meaning water lily, the flower emblematic of Monet's ponds.
- Luminansis: formed from the word luminance, a scientific concept that refers to the visual perception of light emitted or reflected by a surface, and the suffix -sis, commonly used in scientific vocabulary to designate an action, process, or state, giving the term a technical and timeless dimension.
