Colette Brunschwig was born in 1927 in Le Havre, where she spent her childhood.

The years of her adolescence were also those of the war;she left her native city for the south of France.

In the Paris of 1945 she confronted an overturned world to which art once again would try to give form. Her own formation, as that of other artists contemporary to this same overturned world, would be marked by its seal.

The responses to this desolate confrontation were multiple and varied. The path she chose - path she would continue to follow - would owe much to the heritage of Surrealism.

This movement, one of the last states of art before the war, was to function differently afterwards; if some - such as Michaux and Masson - carry it out by practicing automatic writing, others exhaust this writing rendering it "lyrical".

Refusing the instantaneous gesture, Colette Brunschwig would try to introduce a temporal dimension, a set of superpositions from whose core a new form would appear.

Chinese art, situated between writing and image, would help her find her manner of expression. Nonetheless, she would continue to develope the other aspect of her work by traditional painting techniques (oil and acrylic).