ARTchipel Artist - Tumblr Artist Gaëlle Faure | on Tumblr (France) - Précis de chimie. Collage sur papier. Présenté sous un passe partout ivoire, format 24 x 30 cm available here > • Tell us in few words about you. My parents are sculptors; my grandfather was a scientist and an art collector madly passionate for archeology and anatomy. Since my childhood, the family environment gave me an early taste for two worlds, a scientific one and an arty one, in which I dive enthusiastically. My career could not have been more atypical: archaeological anthropology studies at university led me, oddly, to a graphic design formation. Artistic director for over 10 years, the creation becomes my primary mode of expression: the photography and the collage that I am passionate, and the antique furniture that finds a second life in my hands. • What motivated you to become an artist? I’ve never really tried to become an artist, I’ve always liked “DIV” and loved sculpting the mud, drawing, creating objects. My background in art history, archaeological anthropology, photography and graphic design did the rest! It taught me to express myself through images and to tell me stories. • What are your work process and techniques? Search for images to be assembled is the first step for anyone who works the collage. Therefore, I particularly like finding in the secondhand market old papers, small images, outdated magazines of 40’s-50’s, forgotten photographs, scientific books that are very damaged to find a reader… Art papers and “Letraset” typographies complement these treasures menus. Once these numerous documents collected, I just have to think, assemble, construct, compound, blend the colors, play with materials, but also to invent stories! Each image component is then the future collage patiently torn or cut with a scalpel and glued. • Tell us a bit about your work habits.I love working in the midst of a universe that looks like me, surrounded by all my little treasures, so it’s in my home that I work the best. • What inspires and provokes imagination in you? Lots of things! But especially anatomy, obsolete objects, imaging 40’s-50’s, a driftwood found on the beach, the old science books, insects, my collection of vinyl records…. • Does your work reflect your person? Without a doubt! It contains all my life. • The adjective that best describes you? Curious • The word you prefer? Miscellanea. For the joyous mess that reminds me. (interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011; visit also artist’s website) [more Gaëlle Faure | Gaëlle Faure on ARTchipel.com] View high resolution

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Gaëlle Faure | on Tumblr (France) - Précis de chimie. Collage sur papier. Présenté sous un passe partout ivoire, format 24 x 30 cm

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• Tell us in few words about you.
My parents are sculptors; my grandfather was a scientist and an art collector madly passionate for archeology and anatomy. Since my childhood, the family environment gave me an early taste for two worlds, a scientific one and an arty one, in which I dive enthusiastically. My career could not have been more atypical: archaeological anthropology studies at university led me, oddly, to a graphic design formation. Artistic director for over 10 years, the creation becomes my primary mode of expression: the photography and the collage that I am passionate, and the antique furniture that finds a second life in my hands.

• What motivated you to become an artist?
I’ve never really tried to become an artist, I’ve always liked “DIV” and loved sculpting the mud, drawing, creating objects. My background in art history, archaeological anthropology, photography and graphic design did the rest! It taught me to express myself through images and to tell me stories.

• What are your work process and techniques?
Search for images to be assembled is the first step for anyone who works the collage. Therefore, I particularly like finding in the secondhand market old papers, small images, outdated magazines of 40’s-50’s, forgotten photographs, scientific books that are very damaged to find a reader… Art papers and “Letraset” typographies complement these treasures menus. Once these numerous documents collected, I just have to think, assemble, construct, compound, blend the colors, play with materials, but also to invent stories! Each image component is then the future collage patiently torn or cut with a scalpel and glued.

• Tell us a bit about your work habits.
I love working in the midst of a universe that looks like me, surrounded by all my little treasures, so it’s in my home that I work the best.

• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
Lots of things! But especially anatomy, obsolete objects, imaging 40’s-50’s, a driftwood found on the beach, the old science books, insects, my collection of vinyl records….

• Does your work reflect your person?
Without a doubt! It contains all my life.

• The adjective that best describes you?
Curious

• The word you prefer?
Miscellanea. For the joyous mess that reminds me.

(interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011; visit also artist’s website)

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ARTchipel Artist Corinne Jullien | Corinne Jullien on ARTchipel.com (b.1969, France) - Liés. Peinture sur papier avec éléments découpés (technique marqueterie), 50x50 cm available here > • Tell us in few words about you.Since always I paint. I graduated in Fine Arts in Nîmes. I’m from a farmer family from the south of France and I grew up in the country. I live in the city Les Lilas (in the eastern suburbs of Paris), that I love. I left Paris where I lived for fifteen years: too much noise, too many people… The city Les Lilas, it’s my countryside for Paris… • What motivated you to become an artist?I am a painter by necessity; it’s my point of balance. Painting centers and refocuses me, calms me, feeds me, settle me, relaxes me, frees me, grows me up… • What are your work process and techniques? I usually work on several canvases at the same time, mainly with large formats and acrylics in the first place so that I can work on multi-layers and transparencies, and then oil to give strength and brightness to the final layer. I paint as an archeologist who searches, one layer after another, until the mystery that I came to dig arises! When it appears, I hold it and will not let it go. Then I start exploring, guided by my unconscious, assisted by my imagination. • Tell us a bit about your work habits. What are your ideal conditions for work? It would be to paint 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, 8 paintings at the same time, in a workshop of 50 square meters, but we must accept the material constraints, and make them as our ally… Therefore, I paint with regular stages, swaying between periods of splendors and periods of dry diets. I paint until I drop, then I rest to live with others and to recharge me, soaked by everything that surrounds me, that feeds me and bothers me. • What inspires and provokes imagination in you? The missing part. • Does your work reflect your person? Yes definitely, the reflection of my personality, the color of my moods. • The adjective that best describes you? Excessive • The word you prefer? Singular (interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011) [more Corinne Jullien | Corinne Jullien on ARTchipel.com] View high resolution

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Corinne Jullien | Corinne Jullien on ARTchipel.com (b.1969, France) - Liés. Peinture sur papier avec éléments découpés (technique marqueterie), 50x50 cm

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• Tell us in few words about you.
Since always I paint. I graduated in Fine Arts in Nîmes. I’m from a farmer family from the south of France and I grew up in the country. I live in the city Les Lilas (in the eastern suburbs of Paris), that I love. I left Paris where I lived for fifteen years: too much noise, too many people… The city Les Lilas, it’s my countryside for Paris…

• What motivated you to become an artist?
I am a painter by necessity; it’s my point of balance. Painting centers and refocuses me, calms me, feeds me, settle me, relaxes me, frees me, grows me up…

• What are your work process and techniques?
I usually work on several canvases at the same time, mainly with large formats and acrylics in the first place so that I can work on multi-layers and transparencies, and then oil to give strength and brightness to the final layer.

I paint as an archeologist who searches, one layer after another, until the mystery that I came to dig arises! When it appears, I hold it and will not let it go. Then I start exploring, guided by my unconscious, assisted by my imagination.

• Tell us a bit about your work habits. What are your ideal conditions for work?
It would be to paint 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, 8 paintings at the same time, in a workshop of 50 square meters, but we must accept the material constraints, and make them as our ally… Therefore, I paint with regular stages, swaying between periods of splendors and periods of dry diets. I paint until I drop, then I rest to live with others and to recharge me, soaked by everything that surrounds me, that feeds me and bothers me.

• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
The missing part.

• Does your work reflect your person?
Yes definitely, the reflection of my personality, the color of my moods.

• The adjective that best describes you?
Excessive

• The word you prefer?
Singular

(interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011)

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ARTchipel Artist Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com (USA) - Connected. Fine art photography, 20x25cm available here > • Tell us in few words about you. I’m from Los Angeles though grew up making frequent visits to family in New Mexico. I think that has influenced my work a great deal as I find myself more and more drawn to rural and isolated characteristics – in people and in landscapes. • What motivated you to become an artist? I never made a conscious decision to become an artist. I didn’t ever consider being a photographer because I didn’t own (and even still, don’t own) anything more advanced than a point and shoot. It took me a long time to realize that being an artist doesn’t have anything to do with what materials you use. • What are your work process and techniques? I guess my only process is that when I see something that incites emotion in me (sadness, loneliness, joy) I want to explore it – no matter what it is. It’s a big reason why I almost always post photographs with music – I feel there is a more complete range of emotions possible with more stimuli. I want to tell a story or have someone else create his own story. My only goal is to have a person walk away feeling differently than he did before viewing my work. • What are your ideal conditions for work? I take a photograph when I see something that makes me pause. This, of course, can occur almost everywhere, so there are really no ideal conditions. Editing photos, however, is different. I like to edit in silence to allow whatever photograph I’m working on to speak to me. Based on the emotions that the photograph has stirred up, I’ll start listening to songs that have made me feel similarly, which allows for a more complete movement of emotion. • What inspires and provokes imagination in you? People. I adore and am inspired by and am moved by people – their stories, their eccentricities, their quirks. What they’re afraid of, what makes them laugh, how they take their coffee. • Does your work reflect your person? I suppose it does to a certain extent because I feel a very strong connection to each piece and therefore it’s all an expression of something that I’m feeling or have felt. As a whole, though, no. I don’t think so. My work feels very lonely and I’m not a lonely person. I feel very vibrant and alive all of the time and I’ll look at my website and wonder where all the color is. • The adjective that best describes you? Alive (interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011) [more Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com] View high resolution

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Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com (USA) - Connected. Fine art photography, 20x25cm

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• Tell us in few words about you.
I’m from Los Angeles though grew up making frequent visits to family in New Mexico. I think that has influenced my work a great deal as I find myself more and more drawn to rural and isolated characteristics – in people and in landscapes.

• What motivated you to become an artist?
I never made a conscious decision to become an artist. I didn’t ever consider being a photographer because I didn’t own (and even still, don’t own) anything more advanced than a point and shoot. It took me a long time to realize that being an artist doesn’t have anything to do with what materials you use.

• What are your work process and techniques?
I guess my only process is that when I see something that incites emotion in me (sadness, loneliness, joy) I want to explore it – no matter what it is. It’s a big reason why I almost always post photographs with music – I feel there is a more complete range of emotions possible with more stimuli. I want to tell a story or have someone else create his own story. My only goal is to have a person walk away feeling differently than he did before viewing my work.

• What are your ideal conditions for work?
I take a photograph when I see something that makes me pause. This, of course, can occur almost everywhere, so there are really no ideal conditions. Editing photos, however, is different. I like to edit in silence to allow whatever photograph I’m working on to speak to me. Based on the emotions that the photograph has stirred up, I’ll start listening to songs that have made me feel similarly, which allows for a more complete movement of emotion.

• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
People. I adore and am inspired by and am moved by people – their stories, their eccentricities, their quirks. What they’re afraid of, what makes them laugh, how they take their coffee.

• Does your work reflect your person?
I suppose it does to a certain extent because I feel a very strong connection to each piece and therefore it’s all an expression of something that I’m feeling or have felt. As a whole, though, no. I don’t think so. My work feels very lonely and I’m not a lonely person. I feel very vibrant and alive all of the time and I’ll look at my website and wonder where all the color is.

• The adjective that best describes you?
Alive

(interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011)

[more Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com]

ARTchipel Artist MaÏssa Toulet | MaÏssa Toulet on ARTchipel.com (b.1974, France) - Cabinet de sorcellerie • Tell us in few words about you. I am born in Paris where I currently live. I would say that in my work, I practice the assembly, in various forms (combinations of objects, images, words). I like to create mismatches and connections between elements that are a priori disparate. • What motivated you to become an artist? The need to give a concrete form to the images or the ideas that occupied my head and which had no reason to interest anyone else but me. • What are your work process and techniques? Most of the time, I work from existing elements. Objects that I collect, the images that I cut… Then I transform them and try to make them work together to produce something meaningful. My techniques are quite various but not very sophisticated: I cut, I paste, I sand, I saw, I drill, I paint, I model, I mold, I sew… I do not really control any of these techniques, but I have used them all at some time or another. • Tell us a bit about your work habits.A table, objects, pictures, magazines, books, and the disorder, a lot of disorder. I usually do not have to create it, it just happens after a few hours. • What inspires and provokes imagination in you? The objects that I find most of the time, the images that I cut, the phrases… and also artwork that I see, often the religious and popular art, museums of natural science, ritual objects, vernacular (class notebooks, intimate photos, letters….) • Does your work reflect your person? Of my inner life, certainly, but they do not necessarily correspond to the image I give of myself in life. Actually, I do not know after all. • The word you prefer? I don’t love a word more than another (like I don’t prefer a specific color). It depends on the context, with which other words that we assemble a word. (interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011) [more MaÏssa Toulet | MaÏssa Toulet on ARTchipel.com] View high resolution

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MaÏssa Toulet | MaÏssa Toulet on ARTchipel.com (b.1974, France) - Cabinet de sorcellerie

• Tell us in few words about you.
I am born in Paris where I currently live. I would say that in my work, I practice the assembly, in various forms (combinations of objects, images, words). I like to create mismatches and connections between elements that are a priori disparate.

• What motivated you to become an artist?
The need to give a concrete form to the images or the ideas that occupied my head and which had no reason to interest anyone else but me.

• What are your work process and techniques?
Most of the time, I work from existing elements. Objects that I collect, the images that I cut… Then I transform them and try to make them work together to produce something meaningful. My techniques are quite various but not very sophisticated: I cut, I paste, I sand, I saw, I drill, I paint, I model, I mold, I sew… I do not really control any of these techniques, but I have used them all at some time or another.

• Tell us a bit about your work habits.
A table, objects, pictures, magazines, books, and the disorder, a lot of disorder. I usually do not have to create it, it just happens after a few hours.

• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
The objects that I find most of the time, the images that I cut, the phrases… and also artwork that I see, often the religious and popular art, museums of natural science, ritual objects, vernacular (class notebooks, intimate photos, letters….)

• Does your work reflect your person?
Of my inner life, certainly, but they do not necessarily correspond to the image I give of myself in life. Actually, I do not know after all.

• The word you prefer?
I don’t love a word more than another (like I don’t prefer a specific color). It depends on the context, with which other words that we assemble a word.

(interview with artist by ARTchipel Nov-2011)

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Loïc Arnaud | Loïc Arnaud on ARTchipel.com (France) - un souffle sur mon visage [Loïc Arnaud on ARTchipel] View high resolution

Loïc Arnaud | Loïc Arnaud on ARTchipel.com (France) - un souffle sur mon visage

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Tumblr Artist Matt Niebuhr | matt-niebuhr | Matt Niebuhr on ARTchipel.com (USA) - Untitled, shimmer (two point illumination), charcoal and graphite on paper, 34” x 60” (2010) [Matt Niebuhr on ARTchipel] View high resolution

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Matt Niebuhr | matt-niebuhr | Matt Niebuhr on ARTchipel.com (USA) - Untitled, shimmer (two point illumination), charcoal and graphite on paper, 34” x 60” (2010)

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Tumblr Artist Anna Paola Guerra | Anna Paola Guerra on ARTchipel.com (Brazil) (2009) [Anna Paola Guerra on ARTchipel] View high resolution

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Anna Paola Guerra | Anna Paola Guerra on ARTchipel.com (Brazil) (2009)

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Tumblr Artist Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com (USA) - self portrait (2010) [Bari Sowa on ARTchipel] View high resolution

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Bari Sowa | Bari Sowa on ARTchipel.com (USA) - self portrait (2010)

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