Emma Heffe

After a few periods in France and abroad, I live and work in the Grenoble Alps since 2005. Coming from a family of several painters, painting has never ceased to be a part of my life. After some explorations in watercolor and oil pastel, I finally turned to oil painting with a palette knife since 2008, a practice that I have explored for many years, both self-taught and in the studio at the Beaux Arts in Grenoble. I have been exhibiting since 2019 in salons and group exhibitions in the Grenoble region.
In the course of my creative explorations, I am increasingly turning towards the representation of an strangely familiar world, both sensitive and offbeat. I revisit common places (which I glean during my travels) in a style mixing impressionism and expressionism, and pulsating to the rhythm of lyrical abstraction and surrealism. Astonishing anthropomorphic shapes (from my "inner sketches") mingle in the space, giving it all its magic through the imprint of the singular.

The direct, instinctive and powerful strokes imprint a unique style and let the pictorial material express itself freely through the superposition of layers, where the background resurfaces. The broad impasto alla prima offers a material that is sculpted more than...

Mostly self taught artist

2019: Domène, Artistes de chez nous

2020: Saint-Ismier, ARTSI

2021: Domène, Artistes de chez nous

2022: Villard-Bonnot, Printemps des Arts, 2e prix de peinture

Saint-Ismier, ARTSI

Crêts-en-Belledonne, Allevar't

2023: Villard-Bonnot, Printemps des Arts, 1er prix de peinture

Saint-Ismier, ARTSI - Duos photos-peinture

Crêts en Belledonne, Allevar't

Saint-Ismier, ARTSI exposition d'automne

Fort-Barraux, Les Automnales

Domène, Artistes de chez Nous

2024: Grenoble, SAGAG, Salon de printemps

Villard-Bonnot, Printemps des Arts

Saint-Ismier, ARTSI, duos photos-peinture

Saint-Ismier, ARTSI, Exposition d'automne

Crêts-en-Belledonne, Allevar't

Fort-Barraux, Les Automnales