Anne Poitrenaud

My visual work is on the edge of abstraction. In my life as in my work, I seek a fragile balance between what is dual: nature and culture, light and shadow, black and white... Energy and life hide in the way from one to the other.
In my sculptures, all made of clay, I bring a visceral energy that I transcribe into organic - yet completely abstract - forms. Each sculpture has a different meaning depending on the angle from which it is viewed; it often takes the form of calligraphy.
My paintings reflect a mental landscape, with which a human trace (writing, calligraphy, sign or symbol) interacts. I seek to transcribe the power, serenity and mystery of nature. Not by depicting them, but by expressing their abstract essence. From culture, I retain more or less evolved traces, from the crude mark to abstract calligraphy, or the presence of poetry excerpts.

It's a questioning that I share through my creations:
between nature and culture,
between empty and full,
between light and shadow,
between sky and humanity.

I grew up near Paris, on the banks of the Seine, and developed a passion for drawing and painting from an early age. My studies at a business school (EM Lyon) kept me away from art for a while, before I began training at the Ecole du Louvre, followed by various courses more directly focused on artistic production (GRETA Création et Design en Arts Plastiques at the Ecole Boulle, Ateliers Terre et Feu Paris in painting and sculpture). I established myself as an independent artist in 2016, and have been exhibiting very regularly ever since (Salon d'Automne, Young International Art Fair Paris, Salon d'Art Abordable etc.).