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Didi La Baysse was born of French parents on the beautiful French Polynesian Island of Tahiti in 1971. Her family moved to the city of Cannes in the south of France in 1976, then immigrated to Australia when she was 10 years old. Now Didi lives in Kuranda, a little scenic village up in the rainforest mountains of Cairns, where she creates her collections and manages her studio/gallery "Didi La Baÿsse Art Gallery".
Artist & designer Didi La Baÿsse represents a smiling and free-spirited dab of French Polynesian influences in the heart of Far North Queensland's World Heritage-Listed Rainforest. A world renowned tourist destination above the FNQ air and sea-port of Cairns. Didi is an established artist since 1990, having an enviable Australian and international reputation as an artist............And it continues to grow
Her desirable acrylic paintings, generous with paint slashes and humour, marry her rainforest surroundings with colourful Polynesian influences and a whimsical imagination. As well as her Fine Art paintings, Didi is also gifted with the knack of hand building 3D sculptures from terracotta, forming nude figurines and wildlife creatures to compliment her creativity. Incredibly, Didi handles the ever so delicate and prestigious silk textile, taught by Melbourne and Adelaide French Silk artist / designer "Marie France" Frater, among her early tutor. Didi is equally adept on cotton fabrics, favouring the heliographic sun printing technique to best convey the uniqueness of her Polynesian influences.
The results on canvas and silks are often addictive, finding their way into many private collections in Australia and worldwide. Such as visiting celebrities; actress Glenn Close, Pamela Rabe, and Director Bruce Beresford have also snapped up their own personal Didi favourites.
From delicate silks, practical cotton to Contemporary Art, sculptures, silver/gold smithing..... Didi is truly diverse.
"The spirit of Tahiti's most famous artistic purveyor, impressionist Paul Gauguin, could well have breathed on the little girl, such was to evolve her natural flair for bold simple structures and the use of brilliant colours on many of her latter canvasses."Tony Johnston (writer/publicist/PR).
Though growing up in Australia, Didi's education mixed her French, Australian and Tahitian influences, and after completing her studies she travelled often between these countries. She also was invited as a "guest artist" on board numerous Pacific cruise ships for the Holland American Line. Other artistic ventures included providing her originally designed silks and cotton textiles for fashion parades - from Cairns' Pier Market place to 'Marchettis at Palm Cove Australian Tourism promotions, solo textile exhibitions and having her work featured heavily in Kuranda village's own international promotional material. In 1996 Didi was proudly representing her country as a Miss Universe Australia 1996 pageant, as well as having her silks "shown off" during the Miss Universe Australia 1996 swimsuit choreography.
These days, the ever-smiling Didi can usually be found in her Kuranda gallery on Coondoo Street, a couple of blocks up from the Skyrail and train station., splashing paint about on yet another canvas, or simply wooing a new generation of customers. |
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My mother is an impressionist artist. As far as I remember I grow up in a household among the perfumes of oil paints and linseed oil. Being surrounded by easels, sketch books, charcoal, and posed many times for my mother's paintings and attended her art exhibitions. This is me at the age of five in Tahiti working at my new easel, given to me by my mother and I am still using it today to create my work.
Didi La Baÿsse 2007
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