CÉLINE MARIE VIDAL

Céline Marie was born in Montpellier, France, middle of five in a family of Catholic intellectuals. She began painting at five and acting at nine, but set aside her passion for the arts to study sciences, for which she also had a natural inclination. She is now a volcanologist and lecturer of Geography at the University of Cambridge. She practices and teach yoga and meditation in the non-dual tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. After over a decade without touching a brush, the desire to paint resurfaced in 2017, when she met her first spiritual teacher. But it was the experience of lockdown in Spring 2020 that fully reignited her oldest passion.

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Céline Marie paints her explorations of the nature of reality through contemplations of objects and meditations. Suffering from strong near-sightedness since the age of four, without eye correction she perceives objects and spaces with poor definition. Beyond the apparent limits of matter, another world appears, with infinite possibilities of sizes, shapes, and light. This reality is also revealed from moment to moment in everyday objects, which Céline Marie captures with her camera.