Sculptress

Chabrolle

Marie-Paule Deville Chabrolle views creating art as a personal adventure. She sculpts bronze figures full of passion, grace, and femininity. Her work draws from her own history – a childhood in Morocco, a fascination with Khmer sculptures, an education in Cambodia, and her life today in France – and unfolds in a floating, timeless world.

Chabrolle works from emotion rather than from a model. She chooses nudes for their vulnerability and raw physical strength, not for their sensuality: strong, restrained, and sometimes melancholic figures. In addition to sculpture, she draws with sanguine, a natural red pigment, and works with gold leaf – hard and soft, ephemeral chalk and lasting metal side by side.