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Céline Argence

Born in 1981, I am both a Graphic Designer and an Illustrator.

Graduated from ECV Aquitaine in 2004, I have since then worked as a freelance Graphic Designer in Bordeaux. Parallel to my professional activities, I draw to express a more personal and free world.

My main source of inspiration is Nature.

In my drawings, I explore the livings and create organic worlds in which life abounds. Worlds in which search for unity is a recurrent topic. Through these themes, I propose to initiate a contemplative journey, sharing my vision and wonders about life, about life’s magics, mysteries and beauty. 

Sharing an unusual interpretation of the living, I intend to open new spaces, new perception and thus to guide through a rediscovery of the known. I am fascinated by the Organic – symbol of the living and of its “ mechanics ”. I build an organic visual representation of each subject as a way to appropriate it to myself and infer it all the intensity I see emanating from it.

I use simple means: black ink and paper.

I use the essentials to capture the complexity of this inner world that swarms in each of us. It is in this raw contrast – that leaves little space for compromise – that I find a balance, most often perceptible in the composition. 
Each element binds and associates to shape universes that I wish to be both strong and vulnerable, alike us and our surrounding environment. 

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To me, the intensity, this medley of strength and depth is just there, ready to be grabbed, "under the skin", behind an envelop that contains and encloses us. I like this idea of ​​the innermost being exteriorized. It is an "unveiling" of the living driven by a search for fusion with what is surrounding us. There, everything seems possible to me. When I perceive this lack of boundary between inside and outside, I find myself dreaming that everything merges in unity and harmony. I see paths larger than ours, already very rich and yet so singular.
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Total Heaven Exposition, Bordeaux, 2020
©Photo: Guillôme Radium

Coming from the world of Printing and Graphic Design, the different techniques and printing possibilities have always fascinated me. 


I am currently bringing my 2 passions together with the adaptation of color versions of some of my drawings, screen-printed in limited series – yet keeping the love of black and white very present. I intend to share them around during exhibitions.

Let's get in touch

Do you appreciate my work and want to offer me an exhibition space, talk about my drawings on your blog or other media, or simply give me your impressions?
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