Pascale Pratte 's "Heart of Ash" collection brings together strikingly intense black and white portraits. Without artifice, the artist pushes matter and light to convey the essential: the fragility, strength, and depth of the human soul.
Using oil and charcoal, she composes faces that seem to emerge from silence. Contrast becomes language, shadow becomes emotion. Each gaze captures an inner truth, suspended between vulnerability and power.
This series, imbued with rare sensitivity, testifies to the artist's instinctive gesture and his ability to make light resonate without color. The charcoal—like a veil of ash—converses with the richness of the oil to offer profoundly human, authentic, and timeless portraits.
With Cœur de Cendre , Pascale Pratte delivers a mature, expressive and universal work.
