Joyeux Catherine

Catherine JOYEUX

Versailles… the paintbrush and the quill pen


Versailles… The mill of the Queen… Everything happened there! A small canvas painted with flames! Catherine Joyeux dedicates it to her uncle… On the way back: an ice cream merchant and… an American! He saw the small canvas placed for a moment on the counter. He liked it. Done deal!
And the uncle in all this? The next day, Catherine goes back to the mill. The calm, the majestic trees, the light of the moment, the omnipresence of the past, the time rediscovered, the impression that the entire park belongs to her! An indescribable emotion! The encounter of a soul and a place!
Catherine is fifteen years old. Her teachers predict a scientific career, a contradiction to her nascent vocation. Her determination only increases: she shall be a painter!

Nicolas Carréga, her ally, encourages her. Catherine Joyeux remembers the paintings of her master, similar to Soulages of the 70’s: power of the blues, browns and blacks, large brushstrokes. Rigorous and meditative compositions. At the Schoold of Applied Arts of Sèvres, Catherine chooses the atelier of mural decor and low-hanging tapestry. The ancestral art lives a renaissance. Many artists weave their works. Isn’t ...

Graduated top of her class from the Applied Arts School of Sèvres.

– Decoration workshop at Christian Dior, avenue Montaigne, Paris.

– Workshop: Atelier de Saint-Cyr at Pierre Daquin.

– Workshop: Atelier 3 with Peter Schonwald and Frédérique Bachellerie.

– Collaboration with contemporary painters: Brachet, Huguette Arthur Bertrand, Andrée Villar, Olivier Brice, André Brasilier, Cathelin, Jansem, Sartou, Carréga, Bardonne…

– Classical tapestry work for Aubusson.

– Group exhibition: Gisors, Beauvais, Pontoise, Paris, Enghien, Menton.

– Watercolor exhibition: Grand Palais, Paris.

– Exhibition: Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris.

– Exhibition: Salon de Rambouillet, avant-garde prize.

– Art exhibition in Versailles.

– International exhibitions: New-York (watercolor painting bronze medal), Tokyo, Suède, Norvège, Floride.

– Watercolor exhibition in Montgermont, 2nd prize in 1999.

– Gallery: Terre des Arts, personal exhibition, Lyon.

– Exhibition: Salon Écriture, Hôtel Dassault Rond-Point Champs Elysées, Paris.

– Exhibition: Salon Scriptura, Lyon.

– Gallery: Terre des Arts, personal exhibition, Paris.

– Gallery: Galerie du Chapitre, personal exhibition, Rennes.

– Exhibition: Regard d’Écrivains, 11th celebration of Bécherel.

– Gallery: Bleu Sonatine, ...