Lea Schock

The Intuitive Painting of Lea Schock

Biographical Aspects

Lea Schock is an artist trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trier. Her studio is located not far from Metz in a station disused of the French railways. - A station? No, an island of peace immersed in lush vegetation. This building retains all its charm of yesteryear. It is there that she devotes herself entirely with an implacable discipline to the high art of painting.

Sometimes one wonders whether her mistake is not to know how to paint, because in the times that run and have a Saharan sense, a certain school that claims abstraction confuses people who no longer know what lies behind canvases where nothing can be seen except the inability to trace a hand, the features of a face, an attitude.

"Homage à Serge Gainsbourg."
In 2007, Schock made a name for herself by fixing for posterity the fleeting images that anonymous hands had drawn on the gable of the house located rue Verneuil where Gainsbourg spent most of his life. Her exhibitions have earned her the most excellent comments from our best art critics. Every time she exposes, she is astonished at her ability to restore beauty and mystery to their place in the world of the arts. Her works are scattered in...

Studied art and design in Trier (Germany)