Sophie Chédeville

Born: 1979

Hometown: Paris, France

Based in: Paris, France

She studied scenography (and photography, academic drawing, packaging graphic design, concept) in Paris, where she was born.
After scientific studies she entered an art school in Paris. She continues with a specialization of trompe l'œil and frescoes. She took her first steps as a freelancer by working for the Atelier Tourtoulou and the store Mise en Teinte based on boulevard saint germain in Paris. She will produce her first major pictorial work for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notably in China, Kenya, and Monaco.
Her career took her to the United States where she divided her time between New York and Texas for private projects. After ten years as an expatriate, she returned to France and settled in Brittany. She devotes herself to painting and poetry while carrying out public commissions. She performs at the same time at monographic and public exhibitions, such as at the Caillebotte property in France and at the Tokyo art center. Her main practice, painting, close to the current of lyrical abstraction, has become the heart of her profession. Since 2021 her artistic style has evolved and her pictorial research has led her towards a liberation of gesture and an obvious precision of light. Her main themes are time and memory.
She wan't to paint the joy of Nature like an experimentation written in our body
Her first collection of poetry was published in 2018, her teacher, sculptor and member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, Claude Abeille, wrote the preface to her.

Sophie Chédeville In The Studio

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Question Icon What inspires you?

music and nature , the principal sensation, I work with, it's like earring the heart of each, and transforme it in energy and paintings, to show that something else is possible, somewhere better, I follow my instinct to go back deep into my fate, and find the way

Question Icon Describe your creative process.

I look a lot of books, all my favorites painters, it's like a ritual and dive into their own gestures. I fell more confident, and more impregnated. I also write some of the most important ideas I want to show, including colors, dark areas, place of the masses. I write it because I doesn't want to draw on my canvas, I want to fell free as much as possible, to keep the essence of the intention. After I choose the music I want to go with and develop the repetition and the duration of the emotion.

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

strong, sensitive, pure

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

Claude Monet, Georgia o'Keefe , Nicolas Poussin, Joan Mitchell

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

heart, sounds of music and fingers

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

It was not an advice, it was a critical sentence, but it become my personal advice "it's too schooly".This sentence that has upset me forced me to go further, and to"go out of the box, every day :search, try to understand, like what you do not like, improve. I found in this sentence the energy to always purchase my goal: Going to the essential

Question Icon Where do you go for inspiration?

in my studio, with the silent in the middle of landscapes, or in Paris, in the national center of art Pompidou

Articles Featuring Sophie Chédeville

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September 27, 2023

Credentials

Awards

peinture décorative-trompe l'oeil. Mention Très bien

1998