"Welcome !" says Myriam Martel when you pass the door of her studio, 24 rue Saint-Antoine in Guebwiller. We felt very welcomed indeed in this bright studio where the artist moves graciously, where there is a place for every objet, every tool, and every brush.
Myriam Martel, discreet, does not taik about her former exhibitions, her researches or about her other passions. She dedicates herself to her art with patience, tenacity, seeking beauty, balance and universality.

She does not think in terms of artistic production. "What I am doing requires times, a time that I use to think and to have a personal, intimate, journey, which is something I really need in order to create" she says.

Myriam Martel uses oil painting with the same Chinese...glue brush. She works on different materials, earth, wood, metal. She sculpts, creates objectified lamps which function is not to light but to bring a luminous presence. Triptych, universal prayer books inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, abstract or almost figurative paingtings... those are all different facets of her art.

Her amazing productions on big steel plates oxidised by rainwater are fascinating, such as the explanation the artist gave about the long and patient steps of the process and about the strong feeling of plenitude that this form of harmony with the elements of earth and sky creates.

Ziz (DNA journalist)


Myriam Martel, a plastic artist trained at "L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts" from Metz, produces works in close link with our environment. She mainly works on large plates of steel that she exposes to bad weather. The artist observes the damage made by the rust and "guide" it.
She orchestrates this attacker/attacked kind of fight and obtains a result in which unpredictability seems to be essential whereas everything is perfectly mastered... The viewer can see in it some stylised landscapes, or a misty city... Or just a work on forms and materials.

Bernard Fruhinholzt (DNA journalist)


It is possible to imagine the flow of he rain on this plates...
And today we contemplate the result of this random fluidity that you have been able to capture. Spots, curls, runs of fire and ochre, which stand out from the icy grey of the metal, creating here and there a landscape, a vegetable...
A work on humility and patience, animated by the will to grasp the essence of time passing by, through the process of oxidisation.
Thus you collected the traces, the marks of the passage of time. Your work puts time, elements, nature and seasons together, always seeking towards harmony and balance.
It moves me as well because it is imbued with a real softness, mixed with modesty and delicacy.

Stéphanie Favrel (director of Thann's multimedia library)