DANIELLE DESPLAN Signed Mixed Media Collage, signature to lower right reads ‘Danielle Desplan’, inscription to lower left in French, subject a basket of fruit, measures 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches, gilt wooden frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed and double matted in white, not examined out of frame, I use painting as a medium to translate impressions, emotions and memories into a visual format. The techniques involved are based on the superimposition of several layers of gesso, paint and collages. The final effect is that of a delicately burnished and finely weathered patina. Drawn upon the past, the artwork becomes a magical interplay between the formal and the symbolic, antiquity and present, time and place, while creating a personal genre of modern fresco - Danielle Desplain Danielle DESPLAN, signed, mixed media, still life, collage, artwork, contemporary art, wall art, home decor. 11