L'encre Rêveuse The Shape of Emotions

After starting out in the world of graphic design, Violaine Sausset discovered the 3D pen, and it was a revelation! Since then, she has devoted herself to sculpting with this simple and unique tool. Her work focuses on reinterpreting lace and the female silhouette, creating shapes that embellish the exterior to mask internal wounds.

When Graphic Design Meets Sculpture

When, at five years old, her teacher allowed her to choose between napping or drawing... Violaine always chose drawing. She began her artistic journey at a very young age, immersing herself in the visual arts in Lisieux before continuing her studies at the Fine Arts School of Caen. Graduating in graphic design, she experimented with both figurative and abstract representations, with female faces and bodies increasingly occupying the center of her art. Art was already her way of connecting with the world. Since then, an invisible thread has led her through an exciting professional journey, allowing her to explore various techniques before, almost unexpectedly, arriving at the use of a simple 3D pen, enabling her to work with both volume and form. In her studio in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, in the heart of Calvados, the artist creates airy structures using PLA (polylactic acid), a biodegradable material derived from natural resources, and she exclusively uses natural pigments, derived from sugarcane, beets , shells, or coffee beans, as well as metals such as bronze and copper.

With passion, she reinvents lace sculpture, an innovative approach that blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technology.

"I draw inspiration from my personal story to create a poetic universe that combines the silent screams of the body with the resilience of the imagination."

"My work questions our relationship to the body, femininity, what we reveal, and what we hide."

In Search of Balance

Through her sculptures, the artist explores the theme of duality: shadow and light, volume and space, fullness and emptiness, in a constant search for balance. The technique is an endless repetition, guiding the artist through the labyrinths of her mind and the subtleties of her emotions, releasing feelings and achieving a state of fulfillment. Her ultimate goal is to convey a sense of calm, an invitation to dream, offering the possibility to look beyond difficulties and try to overcome long-buried inner wounds, as they unfold and take shape. Violaine Sausset's art is one that touches, inspires, and speaks of universal emotions. In her PLA lace sculptures, she delivers a message of lightness and resilience, much like the women she represents—ethereal and grounded, fragile and powerful.

Transforming Suffering into Poetry

Violaine Sausset is much more than a talented artist; she is a committed woman. In 2020, she took part in the project *"On the Road to Equality"*, for which she created the piece *"Intempor'Elles"*, exhibited at the UN headquarters in Geneva. During her exhibition *"Whispers of the Soul"* at the Maison des Dentelles in Argentan, she led artistic workshops, passing on her skills to younger generations, and also participated in a project at the Argentan detention center. Her art becomes a means of expression and liberation, even in confined spaces, proving that beauty and creation know no boundaries. Many visitors to her exhibitions have asked if the artworks could be worn... and Violaine herself has been exploring this possibility with enthusiasm for some time. She is working on a technique with ribbon openings, so that custom sculptures can be tried on. A fashion show featuring these works of art would be a parade of beauty, joy, and rebirth, where the body embraces its soul!