Lara Broecke

I am a British artist based in the western suburbs of Paris. Firmly rooted in medieval methods, I use aesthetic devices originally meant to glorify the church to make secular paintings conveying the wonder and power of the natural world and the ambiguity of man’s relationship with it. I fell in love with early Italian painting while living in Florence, and returned to the UK to study it in a masters degree at Oxford University. I then went on to train as a paintings conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, where I became passionate about the materials and techniques of medieval European art and learned to gild and paint in hand-made egg tempera on wooden panels prepared with gesso. After many years researching these methods in theory and practice, culminating in the publication of my annotated translation of Cennino Cennini’s fifteenth century treatise on art, I began to develop my own artistic practice. My paintings, which have been sold to collectors world-wide, have been selected for numerous local salons and I was shortlisted for the New Emergence Art Prize in 2022.

Masters degree in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Oxford University 1999-2000.

Postgraduate diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge University, 2000-2003.

2023 June - Art as a Response to Mental Health, Doncaster Art Fair, UK

2023 March - Salon des arts, Salle de la Mare aux Loups, Le-Perray-en-Yvelines, France

2022 December - Biennale des arts, Atrium, Chaville, France

2022 October - Mixtape No.1, Cultivate, London, UK (on-line)

2022 March - Salon de printemps, Centre Culturel René Cassin, Dourdan, France

2021 October - Biennale des beaux-arts, Bergerie Nationale, Rambouillet, France

2021 September - Partout Paris, Le Lavoir, Carrières-sur-Seine, France