Fabienne Monestier

I was born in 1962.
I'm a professional artist, based in France, in the Loire Valley.

I live and work in Vouvray, (land of good white wines, sparkling or still, dry or sweet) in Touraine, in a very pretty troglodyte dwelling, typical of the Loire Valley.

I studied Fine Arts at the Institute of Visual Arts in Orleans where I entered with a file of floral illustrations for fabrics and an experimental feature film in video.

Finally, I studied printmaking, experimental cinema, and photography.
But what I liked best, in cinema, was drawing storyboards!
I obtained High School Art Diploma (DNSEP, equivalent to a Master's degree) in 1989.

As I student in Fine Arts, I started studying lyrical singing at the Orléans Conservatory, right next to the IAV. I had studied solfège and piano as a child, which made it easier for me to resume my musical studies later on!
I spent some time in harmony and composition classes, but I soon realised that music as a composer would not be my means of expression.
In 1991, on the advice of my singing teacher, I had an audition at the Tours Opera House, and I was hired in the Professional Choir where I still sing!

I am a gourmand of pictorial techniques and subjects.
Everything is likely to interest me one ...

Art studies at the IAV of Orléans, France
Art School High Diploma : DNSEP 1989

Etudes d’arts plastiques à l'Institut d'Arts Visuels d'Orléans.
Diplôme National Supérieur d’Education Plastique, 1989

Also lyrical singer in the « Professionnal Opera Choir » from Opera of Tours, France.

2025 : solo exhibition in several locations, France.
2021 : Virtual exhibition with Gallery44, Calgary, Canada.
Virtual exhibition with Le Gisant gallery, Dinan, France.

2020 "Try it art" gallery, Calgary, Canada.
"Le Gisant" gallery, Dinan, France

2019 Permanent artist of the art gallery "Le Gisant", Dinan (France).

2018 Group exhibition at the Salon of Cholet.

2018 Solo exhibition : "Univers végétal", Tours

2017 : Solo exhibition at "Tartine and co", Tours

2017 "Woodlands and forests", New solo exhibition at "La Gerbe d'Or", Loches, France.

2017 - 2016 : solo exhibition at "La Gerbe d'or", Loches, 22, rue Balzac.

June 2016 : 3dr price on the big size painting competition in Pussigny, 37, France

April and may, solo exhibition at "Le Choiseul", 4* castle-hotel, Amboise, France

2015 : Solo exhibition at the Pavillon Heller, Ballan Miré, France.

-Group exhibition at the Artistic Salon, Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, France
2014
-1st prize at the « Pussifolies » Oversized canvas competition, Pussigny, France
-Solo exhibition at the famous wine growing estate “Domaine Huet”, Vouvray, France
-Group exhibition at the Artistic Salon, Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, France
-Group exhibition : « Mots et maux de corps et d’âme »...