Fabienne Monestier – Artist
I was born in 1962.
I’m a professional artist, based in France.
I studied Fine Arts at the Institute of Visual Arts in Orleans where I entered with a file of floral illustrations for fabrics and an experimental feature film in video.
Finally, I studied printmaking, experimental cinema, and photography.
But what I liked best, in cinema, was drawing storyboards!
I obtained High School Art Diploma (DNSEP, equivalent to a Master’s degree) in 1989.
As I student in Fine Arts, I started studying lyrical singing at the Orléans Conservatory, right next to the IAV. I had studied solfège and piano as a child, which made it easier for me to resume my musical studies later on!
I spent some time in harmony and composition classes, but I soon realised that music as a composer would not be my means of expression.
I am a gourmand of pictorial techniques and subjects.
Everything is likely to interest me one day. The human figure, landscapes, seascapes, forests, and now, flowers.
Schematically, to sum up, after having done very dark and serious works in my youth, the more I advance in life, the more I find myself with a pronounced taste for beauty, colour and life!
I love to explore painting techniques. It is for me an endless journey, filled with the happiness of accomplishment, the enjoyment of inventiveness, creativity! I couldn’t live without creating.
Creation is my vital engine, the source of my energy. Giving matter to, giving birth to, making with my hands, imagining, letting my eyes dream. Creating …
On the other hand, the fine arts, for me, can only be practiced in the solitude of the studio. Reflection and mental activity are conditioned by this time for oneself, this time of withdrawal, of introspection necessary for constructed and thoughtful expression.
I like graphic design in painting. I love glazes. I use transparent colours a lot for the richness and depth of the tones they bring. I use the brands: Golden, Liquitex, Winsor and Newton, Sennelier, Schmincke, Lascaux…
I work on canvas or paper: oil, watercolour, inks, coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, acrylic, markers, charcoal, black stone…
I sell my works all over the world.
