Anne Poiré Guallino

Patrick Guallino et moi-même travaillons ensemble depuis plus de trente ans. Patrick Guallino and me are working together for thirty years.

Enchanting, magical artists.

Patrick Guallino - 1943 - and Anne Poire - 1965 - poets of light and colors, are a gatherer of the imaginary. They reap in all seasons to create luxuriant bouquets reminiscent of childhood.

Describing their work would require beginning the story with "once upon a time". Once upon a time there was prolific creators whose soul and heart are definitely nestled in childhood and bliss.

They created works of poetry, saturated with bright, pure colors, and which are at the same time playful and fairytale-like, something like a translation on canvass or in wooden form of Raymond Queneau or Robert Desnos. Wether they paint or sculpt, their creations tell the same story as days go by, that of people who love each other and say it, and who love life and have a ferocious craving for laughter and merry-making.

They draw, paint, sculpture with an evident jubilation, as they had never left the bank of childhood. They cultivate with obstinacy the joyful and innocent vision of first feelings.

Anne whispers Patrick poems and new worlds build up themselves.


Their studio is full of flamboyant colors --the simplicity of images garnered from childhood. Primary colors alone--red, blue, yellow, green, blac...