Ballade
Ballade belongs to the Musical Abstraction series. Not every movement needs a destination. Ballade was painted from a quieter place than many of the works in this series. The gestures are still instinctive, the marks still physical, but they no longer push against the canvas. They drift, pause, overlap, and begin again, finding their own rhythm along the way. Its title comes from the musical form known for its lyrical, expressive character. Rather than building toward a climax, the painting unfolds like a melody, inviting the eye to wander freely across the surface. Created with acrylic on canvas using an intuitive, action painting approach, Ballade is a meditation on rhythm, movement, and the beauty of letting things unfold in their own time.
Muriel Elmaleh
Muriel Elmaleh is a contemporary artist working across abstraction, figurative painting, and pop imagery. Working with acrylic on canvas, she explores themes of identity, memory, and nostalgia through expressive abstraction and symbolic figurative painting. Rooted in her childhood in Ivory Coast, Elmaleh's work carries traces of cultural storytelling, emotional inheritance, and personal memory. These influences resonate throughout her practice, informing both her abstract and figurative works through gesture, symbolism, and recurring themes of resilience, belonging, and transformation. Self-taught and instinct-driven, Elmaleh approaches painting as both an intuitive and physical act. Her work balances spontaneity with control, allowing movement, memory, and symbolism to coexist in compositions that invite viewers into spaces where personal experience and universal emotion quietly converge.
Muriel Elmaleh is a contemporary artist working across abstraction, figurative painting, and pop imagery. Working with acrylic on canvas, she explores themes of identity, memory, and nostalgia through expressive abstraction and symbolic figurative painting. Rooted in her childhood in Ivory Coast, Elmaleh's work carries traces of cultural storytelling, emotional inheritance, and personal memory. These influences resonate throughout her practice, informing both her abstract and figurative works through gesture, symbolism, and recurring themes of resilience, belonging, and transformation. Self-taught and instinct-driven, Elmaleh approaches painting as both an intuitive and physical act. Her work balances spontaneity with control, allowing movement, memory, and symbolism to coexist in compositions that invite viewers into spaces where personal experience and universal emotion quietly converge.
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