Fabienne Monestier

Born: 1962

Hometown: Vouvray

Based in: Vouvray, France

Fabienne Monestier is a French professionnal painter.

She is graduated in Fine Art. She studied experimental cinema and engraving at the art school "Institut d'Arts Visuels" of Orléans, France.
But her favorite practice, in cinema, was to draw the story-boards !

She get an Art School High Diploma in 1989. She really began painting in 1994.

Main time, she paints from imagination, because she likes the freedom of evocation. She likes working in figurative, abstract, impressionism or photorealism ways. She always says that the most important, for her, is to create images !
All her artworks are original pieces, paintings and drawings, direct from her studio in Touraine, in the Loire Valley, France.

She is also a lyrical mezzo singer in the professionnal choir from Opera of Tours, France.

Fabienne Monestier In The Studio

More About Fabienne Monestier

Question Icon What inspires you?

nature, flowers, colors, forms, emotions, forests, sky, horizon, cities, dystopia, landscape, mystery

Question Icon Describe your creative process.

My creative process is based on pareidolia. I make scrawls, stains on the white surface. And then, I look at the forms and shapes that appears. I rearrange composition and it leads me during my painting work. I always keep luminous, fresh colors. I don't like muddy colors. I often paint like I write, very quickly.

Question Icon What are 3 words that best describe your work?

colored, spontaneous, gestural

Question Icon Who are some artists that have influenced your work?

French Impressionists, Cy Twombly, Caravaggio

Question Icon What is the most important tool when creating your work?

medium DIY brushes

Question Icon What is the best piece of advice you have been given?

Always look for your own artistic personnality

Question Icon Where do you go for inspiration?

In my mind, in my memory !

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Credentials

Education

Institut d'Arts Visuels d'Orléans

France, 1983

Awards

Large size painting contest Ingré, France

2019

Artistic Salon of Château-La-Vallière, (France)

2019

Artistic salon of Ste Maure, France

2018

Biennale de Savonnières, France

2018

Artistic salon of Vouvray, France

2017

Large size painting contest 157,48”X78,74” Pussigny, France

2016