RESUME:

VALÉRIE LE MEUR is a Member of the Taylor Foundation; Member of the Society of Salon D’Automne, Paris

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near PARIS in 1965.

She lives and works in Gif-Sur-Yvette; PARIS’ suburbs. She is a painter., Known for bold and colorful urban landscapes.

EDUCATION:

2008-2018: Painting courses in PARIS

Speaks English and French

SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

GIF-SUR-YVETTE (91) : CHATEAU DE BELLEVILLE : 2022-2021-2019-2018

PARIS 16: THEATRE LE RANELAGH: September 2022-January 2023

SAINT-GERMAIN-EN LAYE (78) June 2021 and 2022

PARIS : Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Sept.2021

GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

2023 :

February : PARIS : ART CAPITAL : Salon des Artistes français ; GRAND PALAIS

March: LONDON: THE OTHER ART FAIR

August: TOKYO: TOKYO ART CENTER with Salon d’Automne-Paris

2018-2022:

SALON D’AUTOMNE PARIS- Section Figuration- : 2019-2020-2021-2022

FINE ART BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT (92) : 2020-2021-2022

SALON DES ARTISTES DE VILLE D’AVRAY (92): 2020-2021-2022

SALON DES ARTISTES DU VAL DE MARNE (94): 2020-2021

SALON D’ETAMPES (91) ; VERRIERES LE BUISSON (92) ;

BOURG-LA-REINE (92); RAMBOUILLET (78);

PARIS: MADELEINE CHURCH; FORBACH (57) : TET DE L’ART Gallery

SENLIS ARTFAIR (60); GIVERNY : DEMARET Gallery

ARTISTIC PARTNESHIPS:

2022 et 2023: CREARTOTHEQUE EVRY (91): EVRY CITY

Sept. 2021: AUCTION for « Partage-Oise » charity: Painting sold

July 2021: Partnership with the charity « Le Livre à deux places »

REPRESENTED by PAUL STEWART GALLERY on ARTSPER and BARNEBYS

Part of the collective art group: BELLAZ’ART- PARIS since Dec. 2021

2021 ARTIST’s RATING « Artprice.com » (Auction MAISON ROUILLAC ; 2020)

My background

Sociétaire du Salon d’Automne, Paris

Membre de la Fondation Taylor; Paris

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (92) near Paris

FORMATION 

2008-2018 : cours de peinture et perfectionnement : Gif-sur-Yvette ; Palaiseau

2020-2021 : Séminaires en ligne (KAZOART ; RICHARD CLAREMONT, ARTXERRA)

EXPOSITIONS-SALONS

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES :

Gif-sur-Yvette, Chevreuse (78) : 2018-2019-2021-2022

SALONS :

The Other art Fair; SAATCHI; London The Truman Brewery 9-12 March 2023

Saint Germain en Laye (78) : 2021-2022

EXPO 4ART : Halles des Blancs Manteaux ; Paris : 2021

PARALLAX ART FAIR; Londres: 2018

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES :

2023: Salon des Artistes Français: 15-19 Février Grand Palais éphémère; Paris

The Other Art Fair Londres 9-12 Mars 2023

Tokyo Art Center : 10-20 Août 2023: avec le Salon d’Automne

Salon des Artistes du Val de marne 30 Sept-22 oct

Biennale de Rambouillet: 7-22 Octobre 2023

2022 : Salon Emergence, Au SEL, Sèvres (92)

Salon Des Artistes d’Ile De France, Bourg-La-Reine (92)

Salon Des Artistes De Ville d’Avray (92)

Salon De Verrières-Le-Buisson (92)

2021 : Salon d’Etampes (91) ; Biennale de Rambouillet (78) ; Salon d’Automne-Paris ; Salon des Beaux-Arts de Boulogne-Billancourt (92) ; Salon des Artistes du Val De Marne (94)

2020 : Salon d’Etampes ; Salon de Ville d’Avray ; Salon d’Automne Paris (Virtuel)

2019 : Salon d’Automne-Paris ; Verrières-Le-Buisson ; Eglise de La Madeleine : Paris

2018: Forbach (57); Versailles (78); Senlis Art Fair (60)

2017 : Paris ; ADAC Chatillon (92) ; Giverny (27) : Galerie DESMARET

COLLABORATIONS ARTISTIQUES :

2021-2022 : CREARTOTHEQUE avec la mairie d’EVRY (91) et les écoles de la ville

2021 : Vente aux enchères d’un tableau au profit de l’association « PARTAGE OISE »

2021 : Réalisation artistique au profit de l’association « LE BANC A DEUX PLACES »

REPRESENTEE PAR PAUL STEWART GALLERY et sur ARTSPER et BARNEBYS

Fait partie du COLLECTIF D’ARTISTE de l’association BELLAZ’ART

COTATION sur ARTPRICE (Enchères Maison Rouillac ; 2020)

COLLECTIONNEURS PRIVES en France et à l’étranger

COLLECTION PUBLIQUE : Ville de G…

Artist statement


Born and raised in a big city near Paris has influenced my work.
I have a fascination for cities: noisy, overwhelming and lively, yet hiding
people loneliness.
My paintings represent this ambiguity: detailed yet impressionist;
colourful yet sometimes melancholic.
I usually paint urban landscapes: the interiors (stores, pubs, theatres)
full of details and colourful; exteriors (cities, buildings, architecture).
I’ve worked with the theatre for ten years and that experience influenced
my work: colours, setting of the paintings.
I’m looking for an atmosphere through the colours, I often configure my paintings
like a movie set.
I want to create an atmosphere rather than reproduce the reality. The style is
modern impressionism.
I’m influenced by the theatre, cinema and romantic painters, such as
DELACROIX, for his sensuality or SOROLLA, the great Spanish master of light.
My work is made of lots of layers of acrylic on a canvas, quick rough brush strokes
and vivid colours.
My colour palet is made of blue, colourful and bright paint to depict
sunny summer scenes.
Warm brown, red and gold to depict winter scenes and interiors.
I use acrylic because it’s a medium that correspond to my temperament:
I’m impatient and this material suits me for it allows my painting a speed,
a bold aspect; I work in a kind of urgency.
Time goes by too quickly so I’d rather not lose time.
However lively the colours may seem there often is a part of melancholy,
nostalgy, hidden messages related to human nature, environment or society.
Now, after more than a decade of exploring figurative art, I’m looking for
more boldness, working on my instinct.

MY ARTISTIC APPROACH

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (92) near Paris. Professional painter, I live and work in Gif-sur-Yvette (91) Chevreuse Valley near Paris

Living in a big city for half my life has greatly influenced my work. I have a fascination for cities: noisy, overwhelming and lively, yet hiding people loneliness.

I paint mostly urban landscapes: the interiors (shops, cafe, theatre house) full of details and colourful with very few details for the people: they are just part of the scenery but not important to me.

I’ve worked for the theatre for ten years and that experience gave me a love of colours, of framing my subject a certain way.

I have retained a passion for staging and colour.

I don't look for reality in my paintings but for the emotion that emerges from them.

Some quick strokes are sometimes balanced by large and light movements to create an opposition and a respiration in the composition. 

There are often a double signification in my work: the colorful painting hiding some nostalgy. Even when my paintings seem bright and cheerful, there is a part of melancholy behind.

My work is made of lots of layers of acrylic on a canvas, quick rough brush strokes and vivid colours. I use acrylic because it’s a medium that corresponds to my character: I’m impatient and this material suits me for it allows my painting a speed, a raw aspect, sometimes violent; I work in a kind of urgency. Some quick strokes are sometimes balanced by large and light movements to create an opposition and a respiration in the composition. 

Influenced by the theatre, cinema and romantic painters, such as DELACROIX, I love SOROLLA, the great Spanish master of light.

I’ve not intend to change the world but I don’t either want to represent it as it is.

So, I change it to convey some emotion, to give the impression of being in a dream.

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