Anne Baudequin

I am a French landscape painter. My work, based on observation in nature “en plein air,” is in line with the French landscape painters of the 19th century. I like the poetry of simple subjects like the paths around my village, the edge of a river, a cloud above the mountains... I paint with oil, "alla prima" (wet on wet), this enables me to capture the atmosphere, the momentary and transient effects of sunlight. This forces me to paint quickly with lively and spontaneous brushstrokes that lend my paintings a sense of movement.

The landscape has always been an object of contemplation for me, an open parenthesis outside of everyday life. From my first paintings at the age of fifteen, I naturally drew my inspiration from it. Graduated from the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts, my studies confronted me with other visual arts practices, but in no way distracted me from my passion for landscape painting on location.

About twenty years ago I chose to live and paint in Auvergne, in the heart of France. From my studio, which dominates the gorges of the Loire, I contemplate the grandiose landscape shaped by volcanoes every day. My brushes explore it, tirelessly, like a walk, renewed daily by light, climate change and the seas...

National Superior School of Applied Arts and Crafts, Olivier de Serres, Paris (1989 - 1994)
-Higher Diploma of Applied Arts

2024 SOLO EXHIBITION
Jules Romains Museum, « Dans l'ombre de la forêt», Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, France

2024 SOLO EXHIBITION
Camino Museum, « Au plus haut des cieux», Le Puy-en-Velay, France

2023 SOLO EXHIBITION
Camino Museum, « Chemin à ciel ouvert», Le Puy-en-Velay, France

2018 FONDATION BENETTON « Join The Dots / Unire le distanze », french collection of Imago Mundi Art, Trieste, Italia

2018 GUEST OF HONOUR
CULTURE HOUSE, "Regards d'Artistes", Clermont-Ferrand, France

2018 SOLO EXHIBITION
HÔTEL DÉPARTEMENTAL de Haute-Loire, « Paysage et variations », Le Puy-en-Velay, France

2017 FRESH: ART FAIR, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Represented by New Blood Art Gallery, London
45 of the UK’s best contemporary galleries will show work by some 400 established and emerging artists from the UK and beyond, all carefully selected.

2017 FONDATION BENETTON « Rotte Mediterranee », french collection of Imago Mundi Art, Palermo, Italia