Sylvaine Catoire

The artist was born and lives in Brittany. Interested in staging characters, she revisits themes of forgotten memory, moments captured in her small red notebooks, a source of inspiration born from observing shared times with family or in society. A figurative artist, she explores her emotions to give them relevance. For her, facts only exist by the way she perceives them, the way she reports them, and the way she assimilates them. Her particular painting technique and her oil mixtures achieve a remarkable transparency repeatedly. By digging into the material to create her drawing, the medium can disturb the line, modulate light and movement, bringing the composition to life.

After a first year of Fine Arts in Rennes, she pursued a professional career in social work. Her first approach will be dry pastel at the Pastel Academy in Paris, before discovering oil at La Grande Chaumière. Brittany marks the discovery of workshops for life models, the Thabor in Rennes, and then in Laillé.

She has been exhibiting since 2015 in salons in France and abroad, as well as in recognized contemporary art salons: Art3F Nantes, Mulhouse, Brussels, Salon d'Automne in Paris in the group "free expressions" where her work was noted.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Member of the TAYLOR foundation no. 20788.