Some gleaned words from a conversation, a picture, scenery which stops the glance, an fleeting emotion felt and the Idea spouts out. It invades the mind slowly, becomes words, colors, intellectualization until transforming itself into obviousness.

Then on the painting, the brush is activated by itself. Impetuously, the color bursts, the artist does not think anymore, the painting is built of a frantic jet, nothing must slow down the elaboration of this painting... Any superfluous detail is isolated to go to essence, to keep only the substantial marrow of the Idea.... A delicate compromise have to be found between "too much" and "not enough"!

Thus animals or portraits are traced using some bare strokes which call to mind the motion, personality or feeling of the actor of the painted scene, as prehistoric men who drew scenes of hunting on the walls of the caves.

Annick Bernard does not try to represent reality accurately but rather to transmit the thrill felt, through the choice of the colors, a simplified layout and arrangement, in a endless personal research...