Stéphanie de Malherbe
Tours, Indre et Loire , France
About Stéphanie de Malherbe
Painting is for me a necessity. I have an urge to express in a pictorial way things I see or feel and that touches me or transmits beauty.
I like to start each painting as though it was something new, leaving my intuition, often led at first by colours, launch the work in a spontaneous way, depending on the place and moment I'm in.
I do hope my work can show a glimpse of the beauty I see in my everyday life, even with it's nostalgic moments at times.
My everyday day life, my family, (I have 4 children and 3 of them are daughters with long hair often tied in a bun..that's why it often appears in my paintings and drawing these days!) is often my first source of inspiration, but it can be a scene in the street, a landscape, a picture I saw or took, an emotion I lived.
I'm also fascinated by portraits and have been lucky to have had many commissions, and still do.
Trying to catch something of the soul of the model is what I find so interesting and unique.
The painters that inspire me most are the Nabis, especially Vuillard and Bonnard.
I also admire Fauve painters and then I like Basquiat for his strong graphic lines, Helene Schjerfbeck for the way she simplifies volumes, Chagall for expressing what he feels and believes, Matisse for his motives and freedom..and so many others..
www.stephaniedemalherbe.com
Education:
- Master degree in graphic design with honours at Penninghen (E.S.AG. : Ecole Supérieure d'Art Graphique) in Paris - France
- Etching course in San Lorenzo de El Escorial Spain
- Painting course with mexican painter Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Worked with Jean-Paul Gaultier in Paris, in charge of designing his publicities in Magazines, invitations for fashion shows, and JPG costumes ideas in sketches, for exemple for the film the 5th Element
Events:
GROUP EXHIBITION in Paris 59 rue de Rivoli 75001 from tuesday the 21rst untill sunday the 26th of March 2017 (from 1pm to 6h30pm) and I am working on commissioned portraits and paintings
Exhibitions:
GROUP EXHIBITION in Paris 59 rue de Rivoli 75001 March 2017
2016 GROUP EXHIBITION au Château des Bois in Satigny, Geneva - Switzerland - November 2016
2016 GROUP EXHIBITION in l'Ile de Ré in "entre les Portes et la Rivière" les Portes en Ré.
2015 EXHIBITION in CHATEAU de TOURS (in the city of 37000 Tours in France) from the 3 of September to November the 22nd 2015 organised by the Town Hall
2014 - EXHIBITION in AVIGNON, at the DISTILLERIE MANGUIN FRANCE from the 23rd of April 2014 to September
2014 EXHIBITION individual GALERIE BERANGER - TOURS - France
2013 EXHIBITION group at the ONU - GENEVA - Switzerland
2012 EXHIBITION individual "La Vieille Cure" - PERROY - Switzerland
2012 EXHIBITION group GALERIE COLETTE DUBOIS - PARIS - France
2011 EXHIBITION group "Fondación Pons"- MADRID - Spain
2010 EXHIBITION individual Private - Vandoeuvres GENEVA - Switzerland
2010 EXHIBITION with Pedro Requejo (Sculptor) BEJAR Málaga - Spain
2010 EXHIBITION group. CATEDRAL de ALCALA DE HENARES - Madrid - Spain
2010 EXHIBITION group. Cultural Center SAN LORENZO del ESCORIAL - Spain
2010 EXHIBITION individual AVENS Bd Haussemann PARIS - France
2010 EXHIBITION individual Notaría en Principe de Vergara Madrid - Spain
2009 EXHIBITION Individual Cultural Center Villanueva de la Cañada - MADRID - Spain
2008 EXHIBITION individual Abbaye de la Clarté Dieu Indre et Loire - France
2007 EXHIBITION group Feria Toro y Luna - Espartinas SEVILLA - España
2007 EXHIBITION individual Gallery Etienne de C. Rue de Seine PARIS - France
2005 EXHIBITION individual Art Gallery/Coffee shop Ohlala - OAXACA - Mexico
2000 EXHIBITION group Casa de la Mujer OAXACA - México
1999 EXHIBITION individual Gallery "Arte de Oaxaca" OAXACA - México
1995 EXHIBITION individual Musée Rufino Tamayo OAXACA - México
1994 EXHIBITION individual Atelier Lasseron - Paris - France
1986 EXHIBITION group SAD Grand Palais PARIS - France
