Sylvie Berthelot-Planques

Born in 1969 to philosophical parents, I benefit from an early opening to the Arts, Culture and spirituality. Initiated by my mother, I am particularly influenced by the great masters of the Renaissance : Gustave Moreau, Klimt, Dali and oriental cultures. My taste for the great myths of the world, the quest for the Grail and existential questions about life, death and spirituality color my entire life and inspire my creativity.

From my childhood, drawing took an important place, I participate in several collective school projects, explore different mediums and, as a teenager, search for myself alongside a budding obsession with line. I exhibit in a gallery for the first time at the age of 18 and wonder about my future. Torn between art studies and a strong need for independence, I choose to freely develop my creativity outside of any framework and school, and turne to a liberal activity in the health sector.

After 12 years, my compelling need to create led me tocrafts, glasswork and learning its techniques (thermoforming and thermogluing). Encouraged by my husband, I train in the Villepinte workshops and open my own art glass workshop. I collaborate with the largest goldsmith house in Toulouse (FELIX Frères) and participate in se...

Self-taught and eclectic, I am characterized by my professional and artistic diversity.

My thirst for discovery leads me towards several distinct artistic lines which allow me to express myself freely in different techniques ranging from drawing to oil painting through work with Indian ink, watercolor and painting digital.

I like to deal with figurative subjects which I contextualize in a dreamlike and symbolic universe that is specific to me.

I draw my inspiration from my spiritual and mystical research to create an art whose expression is carried by light, transparencies and superpositions beyond filiations, currents and codes and in which we find my affinity with repetition. and the finesse of the line.

My art can be described as cathartic, I address each of us, my universal themes question the key themes of my life: the meaning of life, the connection to oneself, to others, to nature, impermanence.

My works hope to represent the light present in everyone's heart and invite philosophical reflection on mystical experience.

A very positive, colorful, luminous painting which modestly aspires to be a message of peace and universal joy.

Solo exhibition
2005 – 2008 Galerie Mosaïkart, Montréal, Canada
2003 – 2008 Galerie de l'Echarpe, Toulouse, France
2003 Salon des Artisans d'Art, Toulouse
Salon des Artisans d'Art, Plaisance-du-Touch, France


Group exhibition
2023 Galerie des Carmes, Toulouse, France
2022 Le BoCAL Toulouse, France
Salon d'art de Saint-Antonin, France
2006 Festival des Francofolies, Montréal, Canada
2005 Galerie Guichard, Chicago, USA
Galerie Curtis Hall, USA
Nema, Washington, USA