About

“My creations arise from a state of meditation.

My process is a surrendering to the elements:

the silks, the paints, the water, and the space between

the movement of the brushes.

May these brushstrokes invite you closer to your own heart.”

Canelle Demange was born and raised in the medieval city of Angers on the Loire River Valley in France.
She came to the United States of America as a French assistant teacher at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington.
She moved to Seattle to write her Thesis on North West American Indian art.
She became fascinated by their experience of the sacred being part of the everyday life, and by their spirituality grounded in honoring mother nature.

Celebration of life through beauty, art,

and healing became the theme of her life.

Intensely involved in modern dance at the Bill Evans School she started to explore the world of self-expression as a dancer, choreographer, and painter.

“My love for painting

emerged out of my love for dance,

Yes! To reveal the invisible and the ephemeral

through colors and dynamics of movement!”

She has performed and exhibited her one-of-a-kind hand painted designs on fabric in Paris and Seattle over the last 30 years.

She encountered Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and her work, which met her needs to experience and embrace the richness and mysteries of the world of embodiment of oneself.

“The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand:

if you want to know how the wind is blowing,

you can look at the sand”

– Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

She became a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, and specialized in Neurodevelopmental movement. Her passion for healing the brain from trauma thrived as she worked with children and adults on the autism spectrum.

She now lives between Paris and Honolulu and started a collection of photos of her textile art:

“AN INVITATION

TO COMBINE BEAUTY AND HEALING,

MY INNER VISIONS WISH TO INSPIRE YOU

AND WELCOME THE LAYERS OF YOUR BEING

TO RESONATE WITH.”