Nadia Barbotin

Passionate about creativity in all its forms, I have met artists from all walks of life who have stimulated my current orientation towards painting and sculpture. I belong also to a family, who is art collector and art amateur.
Self-taught until 2014, I have always painted with oil and knives but for 2 years, I am opened up more and more to new techniques and mediums with spalters, shapers, Indian ink, colored inks, acrylic, mixing them to give more strength, transparency to my artworks
From 2014, I took my destiny in hand to realize my deepest desire, painting full-time. In the meantime, I had art classes in Contemporary Painting, sculpture and Live Model sketching at Fine Arts School in Nantes (France) and at the Ateliers de la Gobinière in Orvault (France). I wanted to experiment with different artistic paths. I make the choice to produce mostly my own canvases and colors (pigments) in a spirit of quality craftsmanship.
Inspired by the impressionists for their lights, movement and bright colors, amazed by abstract expressionists for their vehement and spontaneous emotional language, and by Action painting for physical gesture and energy, I try to translate in my artworks , a mixture of all these movements. Music and singing I ha...

2016-2017 : Art class (adults) at Fine Arts School of Nantes (ESBA) studio of Living Model sketching with Tangui Jossic
2014-2020 : Art class (adults) at Fine Arts School of Nantes (ESBA) studio of Contemporary Painting with Viktor Belmoustakov
2014-2016 : Art class (adults) at Fine Arts School of Nantes (ESBA) studio of Sculpture with Viktor Belmoustakov
2016 : Art class (adults) Les Ateliers de la Gobinière à Orvault, studio of Contemporary Painting with Marc Gratas

2016 : Living Model Sculpture workshop directed by Anne Ricateau, Les Ateliers de la Gobinière, Orvault, France
2015 : Oil Painting workshop « From Figurative to Abstract » directed by Marianne Abougit, Les Ateliers de la Gobinière, Orvault, France

Cours Peinture contemporaine et sculpture /Volume avec Viktor Belmoustakov aux Beaux-Arts Nantes France
Cours Peinture abstraction avec Marc Gratas aux Ateliers de la Gobinière Orvault France
Cours de dessin modèle vivant avec Tangui Jossic aux Beaux-Arts Nantes France
Stage "de la Figuration à l'Abstraction "avec Marianne Abougit aux Ateliers de la Gobinière Orvault France
Stage de sculpture avec modèle vivant avec Anne Ricateau aux Ateliers de la Gobinière Orvault France

Décembre 2020 : L'Hiver au Garage, Galerie Le Garage, Nantes, France
Septembre 2020 : L'Atelier Capifrance, exposition personnelle, Nantes, France
Novembre 2018 : Open Studios, exposition personnelle, Greenville, Caroline du Sud, Etats-Unis
Nov 2017-Mar 2018 : French Abstract, La Galerie Vincent, exposition personnelle, Greenville, Caroline du Sud, Etats- Unis
Mars 2016 : La Serre des créateurs, exposition personnelle, Orvault, France
Décembre 2015 : Exposition solo Nadia Barbotin, Vigneux de Bretagne, France

Expositions collectives

Depuis juillet 2020 : Représentée par la Galerie Gaia à Nantes
Nov 2020-Janv 2021 : Participation au Petit Marché de l'Art, Galerie Le rayon Vert à Nantes
Juin 2020 : Le Printemps au Garage, galerie Le Garage, Nantes, France
Novembre 2019 : Salon d'Automne ACPL, Nantes, France
Mai 2019 : Retrospective Open Studios, Metropolitan Art Council, Greenville, Caroline du Sud, Etats-Unis
Mai 2019 : Downtown Alive, Greenville, Caroline du Sud, Etats-Unis
Avril 2019 : The Artist Next Door, Greenville, Caroline du Sud, Etats-Unis
Février 2019 : Celebration of Women Artists, Dan Lyles Gallery, Greenville, Caroline du Sud Etats-Unis
Nov-Déc 2018 : A Square Affair, Metropolitan Art Council, Greenvi...