Sol Cattino, an artist originally from Marseille, lives and creates amidst the Mediterranean vibrancy of this city.

Supermarket, vernissage, lovers, Marseille-Athens, flowers… The titles of Sol Cattino’s paintings (a 2020 graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille) are revealing, providing information about the origin of the depicted scenes while initiating immediate narratives.

Through a variety of formats (large framed canvases, free-standing, heart-shaped, or tending towards miniatures) and primarily using oil paint, the artist explores the major categories of art history: genre scenes, portraits, still lifes, with an uninhibited fluidity. This diversity of subjects matches the variety of her palette, which combines with a dynamic, sometimes tumultuous brushwork with pronounced expressionist influences.

Making constant back-and-forth movements between the outside world and what it comprises—friends, parties, nature—and the inside of her studio, Sol Cattino’s paintings are precious icons of our present time.