Oil on canvas depicting a topless mermaid holding a fish in her hands. Antique patinated wood frame. Through mythology, tales, theatre, opera, biblical stories and her love for Italian Renaissance painting, Corinne Tichadou seeks timelessness.
In The Mermaid with the Harp, Corinne Tichadou composes a graceful and poetic scene where music meets myth. The mermaid, with her wavy hair and richly ornamented tail, floats in a marine world populated by shells, whimsical fish and aerial algae. Holding a stylized harp, she seems to be playing a silent melody in the heart of the waves. The work, with its soft colours and decorative details, evokes an enchanted world, between popular art and symbolist allegory.
Corinne Tichadou is a female painter working and living in Beziers, Southern France. Her painting is contemporary, figurative, mythological, biblical, allegorical and contemplative. It weaves links between the past and the present. Through mythology, tales, theatre, opera, biblical stories and her love for Italian Renaissance painting, she seeks timelessness as a philosophy. She paints the human being and questions it about its relationship to the world: to love, to family, to its courage, to its destiny, to its place in society.