Sylvie Guillot

My work evolves mainly around the human figure which is for me an inexhaustible field of research. I like tension and movement in my work using compositions where bodies seem either to stretch, to fall or to huddle up.
In drawings I like my pencil to ramble free on the paper looking for the right form to grasp before sharpening some lines and adding the colour work to mark out areas I want to highlight.
In paintings I focus on the study of the flesh using all the possibilities given by oil painting, its richness of colours and texture.
I do not mean my work to convey any particuliar intellectual or controvertial statements other that the expression of the primal joy and need to paint.
After many years teaching life drawing in art schools I now dedicate all my time to painting in the studio.

Versailles School of Arts - Paris (1991-1994)

Permanently:
- Galerie le Zèle des Anges, rue du Temple, 84160 LOURMARIN, Provence, France

Past exhibitions (selection):
- Face it Gallery, 2343 Market St, San Francisco
- Palo Alto Art Festival, Palo Alto.
- SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco.
- Traits de justice, Parlement de Bretagne, Rennes.
- Talents d’Aujourd’hui, Mairie de Pantin
- Itinéraires-art contemporain, Mairie du 9°arrondissement de Paris
- Art.Metz, Metz, France.
- Miac-Puls’Art, Le Mans, France.
- Art-Forum, Montreux, Suisse.
- Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- Selection concours du portait Paul-Louis Weiller,
Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- Galerie Le Songe d’Icare, Marseille
- Galerie Frégnac, Paris
- Galerie 18, Vannes, France