oil painting

Elyn was born in the sprawling vastness of Shanghai. The buildings of disproportionate height envy their ever taller neighbors. The incessant tumult of the street, its cars, its two-wheelers, its pedestrians shakes the city from dawn to the heart of the night, a night of debauchery with ephemeral pleasures. Aspiring to a simple and peaceful life, far from the complexity of this "globalized" city, Elyn chose Provence to find rest, the ability to contemplate a sometimes invasive nature, the possibility of seeing a flower grow that will eventually fade. Provence allowed her to forget the clouds of Shanghai. But she remains deeply attached to her original culture, that of her grandparents who raised her. The collision between her original culture and the culture she deliberately chose in her wandering will always arouse "in her heart, this fierce conflict" that she often evokes. It is this collision that she usually expresses in her paintings.

Her departure from China was incomprehensible to many of her loved ones. What they did not admit was that Elyn wanted to save her child's heart, far from a city where everything is nothing but commerce, corruption and power. She wanted to find the paths of her naïve childhood, of liberated creation. Elyn has discovered a second earth but she is above all a citizen of heaven.