Veronique Toinon is an artist whose large-scale paintings are abstract compositions. She likes to explore the metaphysical connections between emotions and a particular moment in time where feelings and space are remembered and distilled into an abstract language of colors, shapes, energy, rhythm and mood. In her words: “ I work until the right moment is released and I have achieved the desired effect, sometimes in quick strokes and at other times adding paint and wiping it off, pushing and pulling my materials. ”

These processes evolve, as the poetry of rhythm and forms unfolds, moving across the canvas in the same way music improvised by a jazz musician progresses. 

She composes spontaneously, capturing the emotions with her color choices and amplifying movement and energy with aggressive mark making. Immediacy of the paint drives her expression and captures the essential. Emotion is clearly the driving force in her Art.

Statement and Bio

My concern lies in exploring my emotions and the commitment to freedom of expression. I strive to bring physical and emotional energy into the experience of painting in which the concept of feeling and memory nourishes my inspiration. I am interested in the way in which nostalgia is not only a longing for a place but actually a yearning for a different time. The time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams; a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress.

The nostalgic desires to revisit time like space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition.  

Toinon’s work has been included in galleries such as Kerr Gallery and Gallery X in New York City, and also in a number of private collections internationally. Born and raised in France, she is self-taught and lives and works in New York City.