Denise Boineau

My artwork is the reflection of a life in motion. To feel and experience a life well lived and translated through a visual narrative is what interests me. Challenging the painters hand with the poets mind to create a sensitivity on canvas is what inspires me. Hope is what I am searching for.
I became a painter after working in the world of fashion and as a costume designer in the movie industry. I became a painter not to escape but to settle on what I had been moving towards. There was no grand plan, but it all makes perfect sense in hindsight. I had good teachers along the way who taught me about color, texture, and composition, and about story-telling and the cut and splice. Art is now my profession, and I approach it with the same dedication that I did my previous full-time jobs.
The nitty-gritty. I start with an image, and let it sit. I look at it every which way. I ask myself: why? Why put it down on canvas? Why share it? Why not just let it be? I see painting as an invitation, a reaching out to someone not yet there. Success: they are moved enough to try to read between the lines, or just to re-internalize it, and let it sit. The poet may try to pat and ply it and turn it into words. A fellow painter may just say...

2015 - Artist in Residence, Studio 209; Thomasville, GA
2007-2013 Art Education FSU, LaMoyne, Brush & Palette
1985 - Paris Fashion Institute
1978-1982 East Carolina University

2015 Group Show, Flaunt Festival; Thomasville GA
2015 Group Show, Artopia, Big Bend Cares, Tallahassee, FL
 2015 Group Show, Sass with Paula Deen, Thomasville, GA
 2015 Solo Show – Artist on Broad Street, Thomasville, GA
 2015 Solo Show - Landmark Kentucky Derby Event, Thomasville, GA
 2015 Group, Show, Due South, Thomasville, GA
 2014 Group Show, “Flaunt”, Thomasville, GA
 2014 Group Show, “Stomp the Divots, Jackson, WY
 2014 Group Show, Signature Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
 2014 Group Show “Pony Up for Post”, International Polo Club, Wellington, FL
 2014 Group Show, “ Polo under the Palms” Sarasota Polo Club, Sarasota, FL
 2014 Group Show, See Me Scope Digital Show, Miami, FL

IAM - Bus Traveling Musemn April 2013 from Artists Portfolio Magazine

Creatives Rising - Long Island City October 2013

Scope Miami - Digital Show Miami, FL December 2013