Artist Marie Hiot Paints and Sculptures Delicious Treats
French painter Marie Hiot works on various mediums, mostly drawing, painting and sculpture. Now living in Sydney, Australia, the contemporary artist focuses on simple, often naive images of everyday life, highlighting the mundane beauty of the object.
DNAMAG: Why do you paint mostly food?
Marie Hiot: I love to paint food as I used to be a pastry Chef and I do love anything to do with food. I also love cooking and it is a big part of my culture - we can sit around a table for hours in France, just having a great time together, eating.
When you find an object that captures your attention, what is usually the thing about it that makes you want to paint it?
It can be many many things, for example painting tomatoes brings me back to my childhood holidays in Italy, we would always go to Tuscany in small villages and go to the market, where the tomatoes looked so beautiful. We would get some food for a few days, get home and cook them. So this gets me back to it. For the Ice Pop sculptures, it came from childhood also, what kid did not love his/her Ice Pop in summer! It's all about what makes me smile. It is also about colours and shapes.
Vanilla Splash Sculpture by Marie Hiot - Mixed Media Sculpture
If you can spend a day with 1 non-living artist who would it be and why?
That's a great question... and so many names are coming to me, Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Frida Kahlo, Gustave Caillebotte, Courbet, Van Gogh, Francoise Gilot, Hilma Af Kilmt, Monet, Matisse... To only get one name, I would probably choose Botticelli as he is from a very different time. His paintings moved me and I can stay in front of them for hours. I would ask so many questions about living in Florence at the time. It was such a different time, artists had patrons, they were still painting with tempera. Florence was the hub of the Renaissance and I am sure he would have some amazing stories. I would ask him to walk me through Florence and tell me how it was at the time.
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