Great content is all about great basic thoughts! Things you and I can see all around, but no one has been able to pick up and use as a concept – Ekta Kapoor, to this representation Stephanie Arpels had not only pick up and used as a concept but also beautifully blended the women status and their fragilities, their strengths and their complexities in her Art.

Stephanie Arpels French based artist who relocated to India in 2015 said she was moved by what she see and feel. The vastness of the country challenges her to show the diversity and contrasts among Indian women. Their gaiety, their laughter, their energy, even in the most dire situations, are striking and awe her; and she interpret this in my art. Stephanie Arpels had her 3rd solo exhibition “Women Passing” that took place at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi, which she considered an inner spiritual awakening over her work on Indian women, rely on saturated black red and blue colours in her new paintings to unveil the sensuality of the curve of women’s bodies, but also love, anger, power, life, evoking what she witness daily.

The collages in Stephanie Arpels paintings associating Western and Indian masters such as Souza, Hussein and Raza, are not only a way to make the faces on her vision of women silhouettes seem more real and accessible, to dress them up, and to respect their emotions and their intimacy while describing the diversity and depth of their feelings, but also a way to link her French origin with India. Knowing that gold is essential in women lives, as an intrinsic part of their social tradition, religion, rituals and superstitions it is present in some of her canvases.

Stephanie Arpels, self taught artist, was attracted to painting and fine art at a young age and began painting as a teenager. Her work focuses on representing the inner beauty of women which she find it a healing process where she found a lot of her energy that helps her live with a life-altering disease.

Stephanie Arpels had a sorted representation of each colours where she describe Blue is for nature and infinity. It symbolises peace, calm, serenity. White represents purity and paradise. Brown is for nature and earth. Green is for nature, stability, energy.Taupe is a colour that travels through time. she feel it is timeless. Shades of white and beige, and darker colours invade her canvases, translating the contrasts of different worlds. Lastly, she use grey and black to illustrate her distress towards the unknown, the emptiness, and death.

Stephanie Arpels interpret women resting, squatting, dancing, walking, dreaming, and passing in landscapes. Observe the inner beauty of women, suspended in time and space, where they can embrace their future destinations. In some of her canvases, her vision of Indian women take flight on their way to reincarnation, a rebirth towards another body and a better life. They are in harmony with themselves and with their environment, their surroundings; accepting their fate graciously.

“The spirituality of Indian women resonates with mine.
I am one with them”- Stephanie Arpels