Paintings By Artist

Christian Raffin

As a child, Christian discovered art through a middle school teacher, and it was a revelation for him. The young man knew that a love of art would follow him throughout his life. An easel and a box of oil paints as a birthday gift finally convinced him to pursue this path. His initial training as an engineer initiated him in drawing, design and the laws of perspective. From industrial design, artistic drawing quickly followed.
Between 1982 and 1984, the artist lived in Tunisia, and the city impregnated his colour palette. He practiced traditional photography and tried his hand at painted photographs. In 2004, driven by an irresistible urge to create, he left his job to become a full time artist. His participation in various art fairs and markets, but above all, his contact with the public, encouraged him in his approach. He was convinced.

David Fonteyne

Introduced to the mysteries of color by his grandfather at an early age, David can’t remember a single day of his life without painting. He sold his first canvases at the age of twelve, proud to carry on the family tradition. The artistic career of his forebears is indeed rich in distinctions. He gave free rein to his impulses, sweeping aside codes and celebrating his independence. Enthralled by the unlimited possibilities of creative work, he reveals his whole being in each of his canvases. Through his seascapes and landscapes, David invites the public to explore new territories.

Emmanuelle Levesque

At the age of 12, during a visit to the Tate Gallery in London, Emmanuelle encountered the first paintings that made her want to paint. She decided to attend a fine arts workshop outside her regular school curriculum, and after receiving a high school diploma in the arts, she joined the School of Fine Arts. She studied drawing and preferred figurative painting initially. The light of the Brittany coast, always changing and capricious, was a source of inspiration and desires for her. After painting from nature and photos, she decided to give free rein to her imagination and to trust the colours as her only medium, and thus she moved definitively to abstraction. On a trip to Russia she met many passionate artists (musicians, actors, filmmakers), and on returning to France, she became a schoolteacher. The overwhelming artistic imagination of children taught her much and this experience helped her to affirm her own colours as her ‘joie de vivre’. She then devoted herself entirely to painting.

Fauve

Ever since her childhood in Roanne (Loire), Fauve has drawn and painted. She taught herself by taking inspiration from works of art history. In adulthood, she became a secretary without, however, abandoning her true passion. She continued painting even while working. She began with watercolours and worked for 8 years with Georges Colognon, a painter from Roanne. In 1997, she felt the need to work with other medium (ink, acrylic, oil), collage and mixed media and was taught by the painter Georges Roget at “Turne à Mignien”, the seat of the association “Les Amis des Arts de Roanne.” In 2000 she left her salaried activity and devoted herself entirely to her art, opening the “Fauve Studio” in Roanne and then moving it in 2005 to SaintHaon-le-Châtel (Loire). Anxious to share and pass on her knowledge, Fauve teaches painting there.

Karine Romanelli

Karine Romanelli’s work is located at the crossroads of two worlds. Merging the photographic image with the painted image, the artist evokes the real in many of its possible forms of representation and interpretation. In this way, her collages superimpose frames, creating a spatial distortion, which brings her compositions closer to a kind of abstraction. The frames also bring together spaces, connecting urban landscapes, familiar indoor settings and everyday objects in a kind of cross section of reality that reveals, in a single frame, both the interior and exterior of a given scene. This kind of freedom of composition, which comes from the ability to move away from classical painting and the search for perspective securely sets Karine Romanelli’s work in an approach that is that of the Avant-Gardes and the artists of Modernity.

Kevin Bailly

Kevin learned the basics of drawing, perspective and the fundamentals of the material through the art workshops he attends during his youth. He then decided to make his passion for art his profession and turned to architecture. After studying in Paris and California, he worked for a few months in New York before returning to France in 2012. Kévin turns completely to his passion: creation. He uses painting to transcribe the emotions that architecture and urban landscapes bring to him.

Kikayou

Born in 1966 in the south of France, from very young Kikayou was passionate about drawing, painting and sculpture. Derived from graffiti and tag, he left on the road from city to city, unnamed stigmas forging his universe. Encounters, emotions drawn from the news and daily life made up the rest. The world that he has created from the Basque Country (where he lives with his large family) is cast in his image: teeming with energy and ideas but devoid of any pretensions. He paints there surrounded by his family and continues to create his whimsical universe in line with the conception of his life, and some ingredients… talent, imagination, feelings and relevance.

Laura Bofill

Laura Bofill’s profound interest in painting developed at a very young age. Coming from a family of artists, she became familiar with the practice early on. After training at the School of Industrial Engineering in Barcelona, she left Spain for London, an abundant megalopolis whose cultural melting pot would deeply influence the artist. The urban landscape, shapes and volumes of cities – whether they are treated as empty or full, whether it is about their omnipresence or on the contrary, their disappearance – become the artist’s central subject. Her growing interest for the effervescence of metropolises encouraged her to fly to New York in the summer of 2005, where she signed up to follow drawing classes at the School of Visual Arts. The Big Apple would be the key to all of Laura Bofill’s work.

MAM

MAM is a French artist who has had a love for art and design since she was little. Drawing and painting brought out her creative side. She wanted to be a fashion designer but went down another avenue in the end. Her love for design never left her though. When she started university, she enrolled at fine arts college to train in figurative painting and character design. Her career took off when a hotel and restaurant manager showed an interest in her pieces through a mutual friend. Word of mouth got the ball rolling and MAM was asked to take part in fairs and exhibit her work in France and abroad. She naturally decided it was time to open her studio where visitors can meet her and see her work.

Veronique Bauquel

She has been working as an interior designer for 22 years and being passionate about artistic expression, it felt only natural for her to turn to a personal form of expression that incorporates the fundamentals of architecture into her paintings. She is currently practicing in Vannes, Brittany, in the west of France.

She present her 3D paintings and also offer her expertise to create a unique, custom-made artwork designed to enhance your interior.

Her approach is primarily decorative, aiming to achieve balance in the composition of her canvases. The square naturally unfolds into a cube in the series Cubes, Villes, and Petits Formats.

The exploration of squares continues in the series Carré & Or, Terres de Lune, and Empreintes, where light is captured through matte and glossy blacks, gold, and copper.

The viewer becomes an active participant; the painting comes to life before their eyes through the interplay of light and texture.

Véronique Bauquel, 3D visual artist, wishes you an enjoyable visit, full of discoveries and sensations.