2008, Séraphine de Senlis by Bertrand Lorquin, Exhibition Catalog, NF

Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis; 1864 – 1942), was a French painter in the Outsider art. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in colour and replicative design, is sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness.