Isabelle Maynard

STATEMENT

Time is a whole. The whole in which we are thrown without having any other choice than live with it, to relieve ourselves of its implacable impermanence.

How to focus on this precious present that makes us feel so alive because when it is stated, it becomes past and already makes promise about a future.

So leaving a trace becomes an urgency, a need, to mark time for a moment. My work has just found its essence and purpose.

Truth of the moment.

Create and share.

Leave an immutable trace in this passing time.

It is by sharing those moments that life and time become a gift.





BIOGRAPHY

“Isabelle Maynard paints with a choreographic gesture. She is playing between coloured grey nebulae surfaces and nervous lines of forces” said French journalist, H.Richard.

Her paintings, some dark and intense shades of greys, others dreamy with airy whites give a wide source of meditation and feelings.


Each work begins with a process that include at first to put a thin layer of plaster on the canvas which give her the ...

2024:

-Featured in 65/57 Degree Magazine, fall issue, Carmel and Napa, ÇA

- Special multi piece commission around the theme of the perfume for the stupendous Penthouse of the iconic Carlton in Cannes.

2023:

- “elemental” exhibition, Desta Gallery, Mill Valley CA

- “bit by bit”, group show, 60SIX Gallery, San Francisco CA

- “Meet the Artist”, Napa Valley Life Magazine, April 3.

- Yountville Sun journal, article.

- “Trace Elements”, Solo Show, Steve Rogers gallery, Yountville, CA

- Featured in Napa Valley Life Magazine, best of 2023 issue.

2022:

- Night Garden”, Group Show, 60SIX Gallery, San Francisco CA

- “Intersection” exhibition, Desta Gallery, Mill Valley CA

- “Vanishing Point”, Solo exhibition, 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cathy Baum & Associates, Fine Art Advisor.

- Showrooms Kneedler Fauchère, San Francisco and LA

- Jennifer West Showroom, Seattle


2021:

- Group Show “Moment of Reflection”, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

- Daniel Kinkade Fine Art, Chicago, IL

- Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

- 60SIX Gallery, San Francisco, CA

- Showroom Kneedler-Fauchère San Francisco and LA

- Laurie Ghielmetti, Art Consultant, San Francisco, CA

2020:

-“A Spring 2020 Like No other”, story ar...