Odyle COLLIN (born in 1950 in Dijon, lives and works in Brindas)
"Sortie de couvent". January 2019
Mixed media on canvas (oil, paper and textile collage...), signed, dated and titled on the back
49x39 cm
Odyle Collin, biographical extract (born in 1950 in Dijon, lives and works in Brindas, Rhône).
When she published her book of poems "Naufrage", printed by Audin, in 1974, I had just met Odyle, (who was to become the wife of my friend Serge Dumonteil, alias Stevie Dixon, rock critic for Rock et Folk and Lyon-Poche). Odyle, an actress, started painting when she retired, and immediately revealed herself to have a beautiful, singular, "out of the ordinary" identity. Indeed, in a unique style, filling her painting, she proposes an imbroglio of the mixture of beliefs, finalized by essential religious signs -the buildings of the Catholic, Jewish, Moslem cults- closely linked, in only one faith, near only one God, finally monotheist, the Almighty and universal. But not only that, without being recognized, she slips into every scene, veiled or not, (to attend the ceremonies, herself) in her generous quality of woman
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