That's what I learned from Gilbert Wolfisberg. I'm a self-taught artist and painting is more than a passion for me, it's my intimate universe, my element, my life.

My mind and heart draw their needs from painting in particular and art in general.

I'd been painting for several years before I met Gilbert, and until then I'd regarded painting as a spontaneous, intuitive creation, a kind of art therapy, a free universe with no rules or boundaries where the artist expresses all the emotions that invade him or her without prior thought or preparation. With each painting, I travel, I get away from reality, from the rational and the everyday, from time, I dream, I create and I free myself.

I use color as my only tool of expression and the driving force behind my creativity. Gilbert succeeded in influencing my approach to painting by introducing me to the world of the language of paint, the different tools of composition (structural rhythms, rhythmic structure...the golden ratio etc.), the harmony of forms, the organization of internal circulation... I then understood that the act of painting is linked to space and not just to the surface.

Of course, color is important because it represents the matter, the pulp and flesh of the painting, but structure is the musculature and skeleton, a kind of framework that supports the image.

Many thanks to you Gilbert for your advice, which has made my approach more complete and my knowledge more extensive. This is the start of an even more exciting journey.

Loubna Combalat