OCTOPUS WITH BLACK BACKGROUND Oil painting on canvas

Oil on canvas by Corinne Tichadou depicting an octopus on a black background.

Corinne Tichadou continues her exploration of the depths of the sea as symbolic territories of the unconscious. Here, the figure of the octopus emerges from a dark and velvety, almost mineral background, whose muted tones reinforce the strangeness of the apparition. The creature, treated in a palette of muted greens and golds, seems to float between two worlds – animal and spectral, real and mythical. Through its supple and enveloping forms, the work evokes a silent presence, a living enigma, an ancient mystery. It testifies to the artist’s gaze, both sensitive to the fragility of beings and fascinated by their power of evocation.

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.