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“ Méditation” © Marie-Christine Coupillaud |
Name: Marie-Christine
Coupillaud
URL: French version: http://www.pastelliste-coupillaud.com/marie-christine_coupillaud__pastelliste.ws
English version: http://www.pastelliste-coupillaud.com/
Bio: Born in Libourne, on the Dordogne (Christian Signol’s “La rivière espérance”)
in 1952, Marie-Christine Coupillaud lives
in the south-west of France, at Artiguelouve, near
Pau, where she took watercolour lessons before
experimenting with oil paint and finally discovering pastel in 2000. After working on her own in her studio, she took two
training courses with the professional artists of the Société des Pastellistes
de France in 2004 and 2005. Her work attained sufficient quality to
enable her to later participate in the International
Pastel Festival in Feytiat, near Limoges. She
also exhibits with the Société des Amis des Arts de Pau.
Her work has won numerous awards, and accolades in the press.
Medium: Pastel
Medium: Pastel
Subjects: Landscape, especially mountains. One of the few
pastellists this side of the Atlantic who paints a lot of mountains, with the
exception perhaps of Andrew Hemingway. Also, seascapes; still life; animals.
Style: Realism tempered with a painterly approach.
Navigation: This website is in French, and in English.
Gallery: The Pyrenees; the Countryside; Venice; Animals;
Still Lives; The Ocean.
Image View: The
presentation of images is unique among websites I have seen to date. There is a
series of viewers for thumbnails on one side, and the centre of the page has
two large viewers for the main themes. The thumbnail viewers play the
thumbnails in series, but may be enlarged to occupy the centre stage. Pictures
cannot be downloaded as such, but one can always use Prt Sc to save the
screenshot.
Demo/Blog: No
Facebook: Yes