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Colors and materials by Florence.

Florence

Florence has created a clothing store that she carefully selects in Soorts Hossegor: Matouch. Alongside this activity, she finds time to paint.

For Florence, the world is only colors and materials.

You will discover a woman with a luminous, radiant personality and as colorful as her paintings...

Céline LI: Hello Florence, can you introduce yourself?
Florence: Hello, I'm Florence, I love life, nature, the sun, the sea, water, sand, everything! The raw elements...

Céline LI: How old were you when you started painting?
Florence: Child! At school ! And then I continued... Not always painting, but in any case I never stopped drawing, for my studies then for my old job, oil painting took over... But I take it as a hobby... I don't feel like an artist, I still lack creativity and time!

Céline LI: Can your paintings vary depending on your mood?
Florence: Not really... I have my favorite themes and oil takes a little longer, I don't paint a picture during the day, so when I don't feel like it I don't paint! But often it's quite the opposite... It's like gardening, it clears the mind!

Céline LI: What are you trying to express when you paint a canvas?
Florence: I don't really have a message... I don't have a very committed style of painting... I like painting women, I like the figurative...

Céline LI: What type of materials do you like to use?
Florence: I like working with all materials, I like working with my hands, I like plaster, earth, clay, gardening, wood, oil paint, feeling the fat under the brush.

Céline LI: What color represents your state of mind?
Florence: If there's a color that could perhaps represent my state of mind even if I don't like that color, it's red! Yeah, I'm too impulsive. But I'm also a “barbamaman”: I like baby pink, I'm very marshmallow all the same. And then the colors that represent me: green, the color of hope and also turquoise, water greens.

Céline LI: What are your inspirations for your works?
Florence: My inspirations come from my childhood, strangely I paint a lot of bar and restaurant scenes. There are also girls at the aperitif, friends are quite nice! I'm very feminist ultimately because I paint a lot of women but I'm starting to paint a few men too. The inspiration could also be a photo from a magazine from which I tore the page. As in my old job we were used to making books, there was no internet and so on... I stored quite a few archives. And I always come back to these archives which I transform in my own way.

Céline LI: What is your relationship with colors?
Florence: I like all the colors! In painting, I like bright colors and pastel colors. I really like the mix of colors that Kenzo did which were very lively. You see the mixtures that we didn't do before: red, pink, orange. I'm not someone dark or dark (laughs), I'm someone sunny! Then there are lots of complementary colors that I like. I love the color ranges. It's my thing. It's also part of my previous job: when you're a textile designer, you make a model and you have to decline it in four or five different colors and atmospheres.

Céline LI: What materials make you feel good?
Florence: Everything raw. The number 1 material is silk! I am a fan
of the material. Summer and winter, I like silk. And then the must is Khadi: Indian hand-woven cottons. Natural materials: linen, hemp, woven
hand. That's it, everything that's artisanal.

Céline LI: What item of clothing do you feel really good in? Which one do you prefer?
Florence: A dress! It camouflages better! I'm curvy but I'm lucky to have a thin waist! So a dress with a belted waist is good!

Céline LI: Can you tell us about your favorite place in the world and describe it?
Florence: My adopted region! The Landes ! It's green, it's true that it's raining... And I love the mildness of the Landes winter... The ocean and beaches as far as the eye can see!
And Bali... I love the atmosphere there: the smells of incense and the Balinese people are incredibly kind and caring.

Céline LI: What is your relationship with beauty? What is beauty for you?
Florence: Each person has their own vision of beauty... Fortunately, otherwise we would have a sad unity... Beauty is a harmony of everything: colors, shapes...

Thank you to Florence for taking the time to share her passion and love with the PLUME team.

Meet Florence in her Matouch boutique in Hossegor

@matouchhossegor

or on his personal Instagram @florence.tixier

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