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“I’m inclined to believe that painting can be for everyone what it is for me: a way to access our deepest emotions, the quiet center from which we often drift away in the agitation and multitude. It could be that painting is not sacred in itself, but it leads to what, within ourselves, is sacred. By doing so, its practice feels like a vocation: one that consists in taking the time to gaze at the world, to dare being moved by it and try “figuring” it. This means wanting to find the true face of Nature and beings, in a process that is only augmented by our loving consciousness.”

“This urge rarely stays without an answer and, one day, an echo emerges from it: suddenly, this or this painting, has turned upside down the mirror of reflection for a person, and he or she finds in it, through some mysterious complicity, the moving density of suspended time.”

“About self-portraits”, Marie Laurence Gaudrat, Somogy, 2001

“Whether she paints a landscape, a still life or a portrait, it’s always to unravel a principle of joy, of health, of delectation, of happy plenitude. Her landscapes, painted on site, turn into true actions of grace for the air, the light, and the space. Her still life paintings celebrate, not unlike the work of Francis Jammes, “the beauty that God gives to ordinary life”. Her portraits reveal the peaceful, blossomed and dreamy face of individuals, what smiles within them, even in their sleep. And in everything, she has us listen to that which sings, even when everything is silent. It’s not mushiness, sentimentality, or a faked optimism, it is, for this powerful and fleshly painter, a surplus of lucidity, consciousness and faith. The end result is a body of work that is solar, wholesome, salutary and lyrical, as we can see.”

Jacques Mougenot

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EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2022 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
November 25 – December 18, 2022

EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2022 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
November 25 – December 18, 2022

EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
November 25 – December 19, 2021

EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
November 25 – December 19, 2021

EXHIBITION FROM DECEMBER 2020 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
December 5-19, 2020

EXHIBITION FROM DECEMBER 2020 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

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Studio Valérie Michelin
47, rue Ampère 75017 Paris
December 5-19, 2020

EXHIBITION FROM DECEMBER 2019 WITH PIERRE RISACHER AT VALÉRIE MICHELIN’S STUDIO

« Viewpoints between ground and sea » at Valérie Michelin’s studio 47, rue Ampère75017 Paris from the 3rd to the 21st of December 2019

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