Léa Valmain

Léa Valmain’s artistic training began when she was a child in the Limousin countryside in central France. Nature as inspiration and model…

In Paris, she studied at the École du Louvre, from which she graduated, specialising in objets d’art and, more particularly, medieval ivories. It was there that she learned to look, really, and her sensitivity was honed, intensely. She built up an immense inner library of rhythms, shapes, spaces and colours.

After a career as a journalist in the children’s press, she felt the urge to create. She worked with ink, resin and encaustic for a while, before finding her own medium: paper, sculpted with a scalpel.
She searched for the best way to express her need for harmony and balance.

She publishes photos of her creations and very quickly commissions come in: private individuals, collectors, palaces including the Martinez in Cannes and property developers.

She lives in the south-west of France, on the banks of a river that offers her splendid skies to contemplate and gives her the feeling of living in a painting. Here, inspiration is fertile.

Degree from the Ecole du Louvre, Paris

100 centimetres carres V, à Carla-Bayle. De décembre 2016 à Février 2017
20 x 20 cm, Toulouse, 2019. Creativity award.