Anne LE CLEAC'H : July 06 - 11, 2008

Oil or acrylics : a modern vision of landscape

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Anne Le Cleac'h is able to put down on her paintings the many aspects of her profound feelings and pictorial expression in such a way that you will never forget it. Although she is a lively and cheerful person, painting is in her view an act of faith and a means to express, in an endless way, her strength and hopes. Persuing truth and grandeur, she gives us a work that appears harmonious, unusual and precious.

I want your painting to be done in a lively and spatial way so that it touches the feelings of the viewer. In the process of analyzing shapes, values and colors and in setting up an internal structure, you will compose a general balance. I'll show you how, by putting together the different rules, you build up a tension leading towards harmony. Then emotion will be around and your painting will show your expressive and emotional intentions. In the morning we will work outside and prepare documents on paper using the techniques of drawing, gouache and acrylics. In the afternoon we will use and organize the paper documents of the morning to paint canvasses in the studio.

Anne Le Cleac'h was trained at the Academie de Port-Royal and the Rudi Munger engraving studio. She is in charge of the Fine Arts Department of the citiy of Gagny and teaches fine arts at the Conservatoire de Gagny and the Academie du Pastel in Paris. She is the president of the fine arts group of the cities of Le Raincy and Villemomble. Main awards : Grand Prix of the Academie de Port-Royal, Medal of the city of Paris, Prize of the Taylor Foundation. Galleries in France : Vendome and Art & Industrie in Paris, Weider in Auray. Salons : Automne, Dessin et Peinture a l'Eau, Comparaison, Societe National des Beaux-Arts, Marine, Grandes Signatures Petits Formats. She was a guest of honor in several salons and she painted murals. Bibliography : Univers des Arts n°39 february 2007 p. 68-69.