Liisa Corbière

Liisa Corbière, originally from Finland, first trained as a weaver, then studied visual arts in her country. Traveling in France in the eighties, she discovered the painting of the Provencal Masters. The sensuality and the joy of life emerging from the paintings fascinated her. She threw away her brushes and started using very colourful and thick oil-based paint, working with a spatula. The warm tones and the brilliant colours of paint applied with this tool are mixed and organized to reveal, as by magic, a landscape or a sea view.

Provence inspires her and her painting expresses an optimistic and sunny vision of it. This artist from the North, who settled in the south of France over 25 years ago, illustrates the beauty of Provence - the beauty that visitors take with them after they leave the area. She revives the idealization and splendor that natives want to communicate about the region. With a sure hand, Liisa Corbière poses the matter: in broad flat tints to portray the fields, the houses or the sea, or in small nervous touches to show a palm tree, a pine tree or flowers. Her resolutely contemporary figurative painting, with its themes, its rich colors and luminosity, is timeless – like all that is simple and beautiful.

L´ETE ARRIVE!!!

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22736 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

TOITS DE MENTON

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22738 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

SAINT CADO, BRETAGNE

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22739 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

L´ETE EST LA!!!

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22740 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

TERRASSE FLEURIE

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22741 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

SOIR A HONFLEUR

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22743 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

Les Toits de Saint Tropez

60 x 30 cm (23 5/8 x 11 13/16 inches) oil on linen painting #22502

VIEUX PORT DE SAINT TROPEZ

10F (21 11/16 x 18 1/8 inches) oil on linen #22746 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

SAINT PAUL DE VENCE

10F (18 1/8 x 21 11/16 inches) oil on linen #22748 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

VISITONS MONT SAINT MICHEL

10F (18 1/8 x 21 11/16 inches) oil on linen #22749 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

LA MAREE HAUTE, BRETAGNE

40 x 80 cm (15 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches) oil on linen #22750 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

VILLAGE A CAP CORSE

80 x 40 cm (31 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22752 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

REFLETS DU PORT

20F (23 5/8 x 28 3/4 inches) oil on linen #22753 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

Le Grau du Roi-Porte de Carmargue

50 x 100 cm (19 11/16 x 39 3/8 inches) oil on linen #22507

BELLE ILE EN MER

50 x 100 cm (19 11/16 x 39 3/8 inches) oil on linen #22754 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

MARTIGUES, VENISE PROVENCALE

40M (25 5/8 x 39 3/8 inches) oil on linen #22756 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO

Provence

120 x 120 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches) oil on linen #22757 CURRENTLY IN LIISA'S STUDIO