Dany Connan’s interest for arts appeared very early.
Still as a very young girl, she spent hours and hours on watching her father, great art amateur, excellent at drawing, painter of fine miniatures on ivory in the best XVIII e style ; he disappeared tragically very young in a car crash. Dany Connan will always keep deep inside her the indelebile mark of this tragedy which has had great impact on her pictural sensitivity.
She still hesitates between two passions, decoration and painting. Due to the period and the angst of creation, she goes from one to the other, without deciding which definitively.
She has always been impressed by the Masters of the XVIII e, XIX e and beginning of the XX e century. It’s in the immense work of these artists that she draws inspiration that drives her permanent technical research.
She is meanwhile contemporary in her style. Her vigorous touch without drivel utilizes a broad palette complying her sensitivity. She overlays colors with an expert hand improved by permanent research.
Her oils are most of the time processed according to the impressionist method, with an onctuous paste allowing a great enhancement of the tints. Judiciously colors overlays combines to give a luminous, colored, natural effect. The touch is contemporary in its translation, vigorous but non violent.
Most of the time, the utilization of glacis according to old technics gives a smoother touch and transparencies with overlays of more delicate colors. The effect is richer and mysterious and offers an incomparable color finishing.
As an eclectic painter, all subjects interest Dany Connan.
She is particularly fond of flowers (specially peonies) and gardens in proportion to the charm which emanates from them and incites daydreams.
For her people and portraits, she tries to interprete sophistication and expression specially.
Ambience and atmosphere painter for her marines, Dany Connan likes to put in them blurred figures which punctuate the movement.
She gets ahead with just as much success in pastels.
Her pastels of landscapes, flowers, or portraits are totally dealt with in dry pastel, which keeps the sophistication of the material without excessive softness. Some vigorous lines gives the contemporary cohesion needed by movement and life. »
Later come to sculpture, her works are largely inspired by those of the biggest names of the XIX e and beginning of the XX e century.
Artist Dany Connan 