Hélène Zenatti

Abstract painting is like a music with no lyrics : it's just a an emotion. Nothing to explain, even if, sometimes, you can imagine there is a story hidden behind the shapes and colours, something mysterious, something about poetry, dreams. Abstract painting is a freedom. It is the freedom of imagination, the freedom of choosing and using the colours I want, depending on my mood and not on a subject.
Abstract painting is also a freedom for the spectator : what you see on the painting is what you want to see.

It took time for me to become a painter. My life followed different ways, before I painted my very first work, thinking "it's an artwork" !
I was born in Paris, France, and I lived there for years. I live in Brittany for about 18 years, in a small village hidden in Broceliande forest, country of ancient Celtic legends.
Even if my mother was a painter, I never thought I could become one myself. I had many professional lives, non-artistic for some of them. I've been a photographer (and I'm still), I've worked for french TV, I sold books, then I sold furniture.
I started painting "by chance" and without knowing what to do exactly 17 years ago, just after moving to Brittany. It took time, but I discovered I could create my own vi...

Graduated of cinema studies at Paris-St-Denis university.
Graduated of Mediation Culturelle at Le-Mans university.
Self taught for painting. I have learned in watching the work of other artists. I'm inspired by abstract expressionism, most of the time, or by abstract modernism.
Member of artists group Artothèque Doon'arts, and ArtBro, Artistes en Brocéliande.

August 2025, ArtBro, abbaye de Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine
May to August 2025, solo show, Le Pont des Arts, Guichen, Ille-et-Vilaine
August 2023, ArtBro, abbaye de Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine
March 2023, Doon'arts, "Les tableaux du Rheu", Le Rheu, Ille-et-Vilaine
July 2022, ArtBro, abbaye de Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine
August 2020 and 2021, "ArtBro", abbaye de Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
February 2020, photo solo exhibition, Moulin de Pen Castel, Arzon, Morbihan