Cécile Ganne is a French Boston-based artist with a passion for color and an obsession with figurative abstraction. She grew up in a family of artists and sculptors in the South-West of France in a region famous for attracting surrealist and cubist artists. Their influences have seeped into her lineaments and color intonations. Imagined and re-imagined, her landscapes, whether landscapes or figures, play with perspective by flattening depths and shifting forms to abolish and yet suggest distance at the same time. They impart a sense of movement and invite contemplation from multiple angles. They merge interior and exterior into an atmosphere of time suspended by lending substance and form to the layers of memory that deposit in our minds, just as sediments shape the limestone cliffs of the Valley of the Dordogne River where she spent her childhood.
She likes to use unconventional tools other than a traditional brush and knife, and work from an additive and subtractive approach. She incorporates crushed, powdered and natural pigments which are infused into the oil and applied to the canvas in a freely expressive manner. Her creative process often takes surprising turns and is energized by textures and gradation of colors.
Her work resides in private collections in France, England, the US, and India. She is currently represented in the USA by Three Stones Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts and The Woodstock Gallery in Woodstock, Vermont. She is also an active member of the SoWa Artist Guild in Boston, MA.
When not creating, she teaches French at Wellesley College. She holds a Ph.D. from Boston University, Licences de Lettres and Art History from La Sorbonne, France.