Fanou Montel

Biography

Fanou Montel knows artistic exaltation from an early age. Nothing will upset her impetus, nor her parents’ refusal to start studies at the Beaux-Arts she coveted, nor her job as professor of economics and management, nor the education of her two children. Globetrotter, she will draw in her travels innumerable creative sensations from the meetings she makes, landscapes she admire ... armed with a notebook and colored markers.

About fifteen solo exhibitions, numerous participations in French and international shows and a collaboration with some galleries, Fanou Montel likes to confront her painting with the eyes of those who will know how to see something that moves them.


Artistic approach

The drawing, then the ink very quickly, were the vectors of her sensitivity of child and teenager. When painting imposed itself on her, a little later, she figuratively tried to translate her emotions. Nudes, portraits, quantities of landscapes ... The touches appeared more and more abstract ... Abstraction has become, for some years now, the tool of her creative liberation ... And then, as nothing is immutable, some figurative transcriptions are gradually emerging ... and she lets it go ...

At the start of a painting, ju...

Professional training: studies of psychology and economics-management which will lead me to teaching

Artistic training: painting courses and workshops, workshops, workshops of living models. Study of drawing, pastel, watercolor, acrylic ...

I then gave painting lessons for several years

Main exhibitions

2022: Exposition personnelle Forcalquier dans le sud de la France
2022: Salon International des Arts Contemporains à Marseille en France
2022: Exposition personnelle à Forcalquier dans le sud de la France
2021: Exposition personnelle à Sanary dans le sud de la France
2021: Salon International des Arts Contemporains à Monaco en France
2020: Art Fair Palais Beaulieu Lausanne Switzerland
2020: Gallery Anne-Marie Ambrosoli International Art.Fair Innsbrück Austria
2019: Solo Exhibition Gallery Barthelemy De Don, Sanary-Sur-Mer 83, France
2019: Exhibition Aletheia Lake Como, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy
2019: Gallery Koupaliantz Art Fair Palais Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019: French Artists Fair, Grand Palais, Paris 75, France
2018: Fair Of Independents, Lyonnaise Painting Academy, Lyon 69, France
2018: Solo Exhibition Gallery Barbarella, Sanary-Sur-Mer 83, France
2018: Solo Exhibition Maison De Labeaume 07, France
2017: Fair Of Independents Academy Lyonnaise Of Painting Lyon 69, France
2017: Sm'art Aix Parc Jourdan, Aix-En-Provence 13, France
2017: Art3f Eurexpo Lyon 69, France
2015: Hotel Mariott, Ban Phé, Thailand
2014 : Solo Exhibition, Car Rental Agency, Ban ...