\r\nA huge fan of posters and graphic design, Marion Demeulenaere plays with words, textures and colours to crystallise memories, as pointless as they may be.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n
\u2018I am an illustrator, but I don\u2019t know how to draw,\u2019 lets slip Marion Demeulenaere, wearing an expression somewhere between blas\u00e9 and cheerful, snuggly settled in on her couch. Based in Brussels for almost fifteen years now, she left her native France on a whim when the summer ended in 2008, to dive into Graphic Communication studies at La Cambre. \u2018It was a lucky break. I was working as a beach photographer at Lacanau Oc\u00e9an, and a friend phoned me to say that she was going to try for the competition to enrol at La Cambre in graphic communication,\u2019 she reminisces. \u2018I said, \u201cI\u2019m coming with you\u201d.\u2019 I took the train from Lacanau the day before the competition very suntanned, in Bermuda shorts and long hair.\u2019 After a disastrous first year, Marion decided to change direction and opted for Typography, a curriculum she followed for five years. \u2018The theory courses are extremely developed and open your mind to the whole arts culture, but also offer you a very vast general knowledge,\u2019 adds the artist. A culture which features in all of her works: between local identity, food and Belgitude, her illustrations are jampacked with metaphors, both bitter-sweet and just sweet. A delicious helping of nostalgia which warms the heart and makes the eyes shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n