Hélène Le Pape

I was born in 1975 and started painting several years ago. I am a self-taught painter and perfect my technique through personal research and through many long hours of observation and practice.
"Equipped" with a doctorate of biology in my pocket, I worked for more than 10 years in the health sector. But ... I have always been passionate about creation and devote all my time today.
My first artistic influences are street art, pop art and art brut. I am very admiring of artists such as Banksy, Troy Henriksen, Armand Kouby, Rosalie Ballester, Rero, or Basquiat.
I create instinctively, letting myself be guided by a find, a photo, a place, an object ... Industrial and urban atmospheres, design, architecture and especially music nourish my work.

My means of expression is a mixed technique, combining collage and acrylic paint. I collect and keep carefully all kinds of posters, papers, cardboards, photographs, images, and materials such as fabric, plastics, etc ...
I like the idea of ​​recycling these papers, these everyday images, to give them an artistic "second life". I tear apart, destructure, assemble the flaps of posters differently to reconstruct them and create a harmony between colors and shapes. I like working on details. ...

2018 :
- collective exhibition Galerie de l’Aubance à Brissac Quincé
- Solo exhibition Galerie 13a - Angers

2017
- exhibition « les petits formats », Espace d’art contemporain AVV - Saint Mathurin sur Loire
- 16 et 17 sept : L’Art Est Aux Nefs, 5ème édition du Salon d’art contemporain - Nantes
- « Les Recombinants », organised by Madja Edelstein-Gomez, salon d’art contemporain de Marseille (Art-o-Rama). https://lesrecombinants.fr/ln.lepape
- collective exhibition Galerie du Village d’Artistes - Rablay sur Layon