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Andrée Bienfait
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Name:
Andrée Bienfait
Bio: Andrée
Bienfait was born in 1956 in Belgium where she spent her youth and there began
to paint under the guidance of painters of her native region, the
Ardennes. She started art classes in high school Izel (Gaume), then continued her studies in
the Ecole Supérieure des Arts in St Luc in Brussels.
With
the desire to further her profession, Andree went from Belgium to Alsace in
order to study with the renowned Claude Lapointe at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in
Strasbourg. In
1981, Andrée Bienfait moved to Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, working as
a book illustrator for over 20 years, mainly books for children and young
people (there’s a considerable list under Bibliographie). In the new millennium
Andrée decided to develop the business of care assistance in order to enrich
and complement her profession of illustrator.
The older people she met re-awakened her primary artistic passion: fine
art painting!
Since
2007, she has been painting in a larger format, in oil and pastel. She is
primarily a portraitist; children, the elderly, all ages and ethnicities are
grist to her mill.
Currently
resident in Franche-Comté, she exhibits also in the Vosges region. From 2012, she
spread her net to surrounding departments and began to win prizes - I came across her work in Saint Aulaye, in
the Dordogne, where her work was acquired by the Museum of Pastel. A member of IEDAC
(Institut Européen Des Arts Contemporains), she was recipient of their Gold Medal
in 2014.
Medium:
Pastel; oil.
Subjects:Portrait,
figurative.
Style:
Representational.
Navigation:
This website is in French, but the essence – the images – is readily available.
Gallery:
Tableaux; Portraits; Croquis (sketches); Illustration.
Image
View: Thumbnails enlarge in a viewer on the same page and can be saved.
Information on material and dimension is lacking, although the pastels are
readily identifiable. Sensuelle won
first prize in the 2013 Salon of the Pastel Society of East Paris (Regards de Pastellistes).
Blog :
The website is in blog format.
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