Severine Pineaux

Severine Pineaux invites us to the fantastic world made of fairytales, flooded by beautiful and seductive women. They appear mounted on horseback where everything ends up metamorphosing into leaves and flowers. Her work breathes an atmosphere typical of the Celtic culture. Through it we have access to a world filled with magic. In Pineaux’s realm there is nothing impossible - it feeds our imagination, through a succession of images born in a distant time and land, which takes us to stories that were lost a long time ago.

Pineaux possesses exquisite drawing skills and knowledge in using the palette with magnificence, constantly dividing it between several colours and subtle nuances.

Metamorphosis is precisely one of Pineaux’s greatest assets. We find in it an exuberant paradox, where beings exchange roles between themselves; people become trees and trees become people. Dragons or mythological beings exchange their fur for a camouflage that looks like leaves and petals, in which there is a union between the plant and animal kingdom, and so a new species is reinvented, a fruit of such crossing. The flora conveys a new soul, new valences and a distinct personality. Her works have a rebirthing character, a fertile dimension where imagination gives room to creativity. This universe is quite unique and goes far beyond our earthly rationality.

Women exhibit a haughty or even a superior countenance, something typical of one who possesses supernatural abilities. They spread seductive magic, dressing and undressing themselves with vegetation, mirroring the environment and evidencing their fertility.

Pineaux paints poetic images, a universe created by fables that go way beyond reality and everyday consciousness. As it is captured by our senses, it activates a world of dreams and fantasy triggering the dreamer in us, a reminder of the collective imagination and passages of our infancy.

By Pedro Boaventura • Excerpt from Masters of Painting - Volume 1

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Painter and illustrator living near the forest of Broceliande, Séverine Pineaux draws fantastic worlds, inspired by mythology and tales and closed to the celtic culture.

With watercolour or oil, she paints poetic visions where the nature is omnipresent. The theme of tree-men, plant-creatures and fabulous animals appears regularly in her art. Mechanical parts and steampunk gearings are mixed with leaves and branches to gather the past and the future. Her work on the enchanted cats brings a touch of sweet humor at this magic universe.

Her paintings tend to be a walk in a dream telling silent stories. Staged in her books, they become actresses and set of a theater made of paper. By mixing trees and human beings, plants and animals, Séverine Pineaux evokes the links and the unity of the world suggested by the ancients spiritualities as by the contemporary science.

Rewarded by numerous awards, Séverine Pineaux published “Ysambre”, “Gothic Faërie”, the “Secret Book of the Cats”, “ Smiles and Cats” and several other books, she exhibits regularly in France and in England, Belgium, USA and Russia.

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My paintings tend to be a walk in a dream world, fed by mythology and legends. Staged in my books, they become actresses and set of a theater made of paper. By mixing trees and human beings, plants and animals, I tell the links and the unity of the world suggested by the ancients spiritualities as by the contemporary science.

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Group Exhibitions:

• 1999 «Visions du futur» Espace Lautrec – Paris

• 2000 «Vision du futur» - Mairie du XVIIIème – Paris

• 2000 Biennale – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2001 French Art Fair – Honk Kong – Chine

• 2001 Salon de Peinture – Carantec

• 2002 «Art&Fact» - Lyon

• 2002 « Visions du futur» - Mairie du XVIIIème - Paris

• 2004 « Utopiales» Palais des congrès – Nantes

• 2004 Galerie l'Arche de Morphée – Paris

• 2004 Biennale – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2004 «l'Art en Dix Mouvements» Château de Chalais

• 2005 «Faerie 2005» - Arlon – Belgique

• 2005 «Fées et Sorcières» - St Léonard de Noblat

• 2005 «Rencontres de l'Imaginaire» - Château de Comper en Brocéliande (invitée d'honneur)

• 2005 «l'Art en Dix Mouvements» - Château de Chalais

• 2006 Biennale – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2006 «l'Art en dix mouvements» - Château de Chalais

• 2006 «Rencontres de l'imaginaire» - Château de Comper en Brocéliande

• 2006 «Regard sur les Arts» Lamballe

• 2006 «Chiméria» - Sedan

• 2006 Morrisson Galleries – Chicago – USA

• 2007 Faerie 2007 – Arlon – Belgique

• 2007 «l'Art en dix mouvements» - Château de Chalais

• 2007 «L'arbre dans l'imaginaire» - Nivelles – Belgique

• 2007 «Chiméria» - Sedan

• 2007 Morisson Galleries – Chicago - USA

• 2008 Chimeria - Sedan

• 2008 Biennale – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2008 Festival de l'art imaginaire – Beaumont en Auge

• 2009 Chimeria - Sedan

• 2009 Festival de l'art imaginaire – Beaumont en Auge

• 2009 «La Forêt de Merlin» – Château de Comper en Brocéliande

• 2009 Faérie 2009 – Arlon – Belgique

• 2009 «Intemporéelles, le fabuleux bestiaire» Abbaye de la Couronnes

• 2010 «Plastica Naboria» - St Avold

• 2010 «Lanval, la fée, la reine et le chevalier» Août - Château de Comper en Brocéliande Septembre – Maison internationale de Rennes, Décembre – Château d'Exeter – Angleterre

• 2010 Biennale – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2010 Morrisson Galleries – Geneva - USA

• 2011 Intemporéel - Abbaye de La Couronne

• 2012 Intemporéel - Abbaye de la Couronne

• 2012 Biennale de St Léonard de Noblat

• 2012 Salon Chimeria - Sedan

• 2012 Salon du petit format - galerie Art passion - Limoges

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2005 Galerie l'Ame Enchantée – Vézelay

• 2007 Cercle St Léonard – St Léonard de Noblat

• 2008 Atelier Karidwen – Paris

• 2010 Médiathèque - Beignon

• 2011 Galerie Art passion - Limoges

• 2011 Galerie petits Papiers - Paris

• 2012 Office du tourisme - Trehorenteuc

• 2012 Château de Comper en Brocéliande

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• 1999 1er Prix du festival "visions du futur" - Paris

• 2004 Pour "Terra incognita": Grand prix de l'imaginaire - Utopiales de Nantes

• 2010 Pour "Ysambre": mention spéciale du prix Oriande - Monthermé

• 2011 Médaille de vermeil - académie Arts Sciences et lettres - Paris

• 2012 Pour "Gothic Faërie" prix Oriande du livre illustré - Monthermé

• 2013 Prix du public "SAFE 2013" - Mont Dore

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• Terra Incognita (art-book collectif )

• Editions. Autres Mondes – Nestiveqnen

• Ysambre, le monde-arbre

• Editions. La Mascara – Tournon – Semic

• Les dragons, petit traité de sciences naturelles

• Editions. Au Bord des Continents

• Le grand bestiaire des légendes

• Editions. Au Bord des Continents

• Ysambre, la femme graine

• Editions. Tournon

• Les dragons (art book collectif)

• Editions Daniel Maghen

• Carnet de croquis, la forêt magique de Séverine Pineaux

• Editions Au Bord des Continents

• Spectrum n°13 / Spectrum n°16 / Spectrum n°19 (art-book collectif USA)

• Artie and Cathy Fenner Publishers

• Gothic Faërie

• Editions Au bord des Continents

• Chats, le livre secret

• Editions au bord des continents

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