Discover the contemporary work of Marie-Françoise BELARD COMBES

MF Bélard Combes finds enchantment through color and the pleasure of material. Its assertive graphics, the velvety feel of of his colors, the transparencies and the glazes, accompany him in his quest for the invisible, in the abstraction of the imprints of life. An endearing work revealing the power of the artist: that of transmuting the wrinkles of time into a burst of light.

Marie-Françoise Bélard Combes        

         « Assertive graphics on abstract backgrounds which enhance each other in a synergy of actions and reactions… »Le Dauphiné Released

• « His creativity knows how to judiciously stage an unusual concrete element in a colorful universe. emotions and came straight from his imagination. An endearing work revealing the power of the artist: that of transmuting the wrinkles of time into a burst of light... Progress
• « …The’artist arrives at this tour de force of finally telling us about man without depicting him… » Progress

Personal exhibitions 

2024 country house, Mornant

2022 Domaine St Joseph, Ste Foy lès Lyon

2021 Salle Berthelot, Chaponost

2015 Martine Pardi Gallery, Lyon

2010 Philip Vallès, home design, Lyon

2009/07/06 Artstation Gallery (Beaujolais)

2008 Piot-Mouny law firm, Jeantet… Lyon

        Gallery of Bagnols in Beaujolais

2007 Pavilion of the Parc de la Tête d'Or

 2006 Arrow Generics, Lyon

                     Hotel Sofitel, Lyon

                     Philip Vallès, Home design, Lyon

2005 Primary Colors Gallery, Lyon

         Society General, Lyon

2004 Hotel Sofitel, Lyon

            Castle of St Jean de Chépy (Isère)

2003 Le M&eac;ridien Partdieu, Lyon

2002 House of Writings, Bullukian Foundation, Lyon

                     Château de Ternay, Rhône

2000 Galerie Voltaire, Grenoble

         Château d'Anse, Rhône

1998 Château de la Condamine, Corenc (Isère)

         Caisse d'epargne, Roanne

1997Château de Grigny, Rhône, as part of the Celtica event

         Château de la Porte, Ternay, Rhône

         Albert Michallon Hospital, Grenoble

1996 LRP, Paris

Participation in the following exhibitions

2016, 2018 Salon Artalp, Palais Bondy, Lyon

2015 Hotel Hilton, Lyon

2006 to 13 Bagnols Watercolorists Festival, Municipality Prize

2012, 2013  Espace Berthelot, Lyon

2011 Art over water, Lyon Academy of Painting

2008 to 2013 Salon des artistes du 6eme,  Mairie de Lyon 6 2007 Exhibition “LE CORPS”», contemporary European works, Grenoble Museum of Medical Sciences

 2004 Town Hall of the 3rd, Lyon

 2002 Lion's Club Prize, Lyon

                     Walks of light, Lyon town hall 6

2001 Creation Prize 2001, CREAC Villeurbanne

         Galerie Voltaire, Grenoble

2000 Belledonne Prize Exhibition.

         Carte Blanche 6 artists Lyon Town Hall 6

1999 Biennale of contemporary art off, Lyon

         Nuremberg (Germany)

         Palais des congresses de Lyon, Carte Blanche à àgrave 6 artists

1998 St Paul Gallery, Lyon

1997 Lion's Club Prize, Grenoble

1996 Château des blondes, Dance Festival, Sassenage (Isère)

         Christian Dazy Gallery, Dijon

         Caves de la Chartreuse, Voiron

1995 Planè artistes 1995, Grenoble Prize

                     Grenoble Town Hall, Espace Achard

1994 Art along the streets Prize  nominated by Mr  Lemoine, curator of the Grenoble museum)

Trade shows

            Guest of honor, Artistes en Val Noir 2021 show

Chaponost Fair 2019

Lyon6 Artists’ Fair, 2019

Vourles Arts and Lights Fair 2017-07-09

Independent Trade Show, Lyon 2011/2014

            Guest of honor at the 2004 Francheville show

Arts and Light Exhibition, Vourles, 2001/2002

            International Spring Salon Lyon 1997 at 2000 – Lefranc Bourgeois Prize 1997

            Salon du Dauphiné, Grenoble 1995 at 1998

            Puy en Velay international exhibition, distinction 1997

Guest of honor at the 20th Salon de Ternay, Château de la Porte, 1997

Activity Teaching:

The painters of Yzeron (Francheville) from 2001 until this day

ALSB Lyon 6 (living model workshop)

Paint with Ste Foy 2003,

Lyon Management School

Lyon Academy of Painting (internships)

Leading a jewelry design course at professionals in the jewelry sector

Training

Course Grenoble School of Fine Arts  

Painting workshop at the oil of Claude Blanc-Brude

Private collections: Europe, USA, Japan

Public collections: Grenoble (CHU), Anse (town hall)

GLEIZE Art Library

We are always a beginner in front of a blank canvas: imagination, emotion, invention should be for me springs that lead to something new. the ambivalence of the painting which becomes both an inaccessible world and an apparition: it slips away, reveals itself, plays with feelings or seems unfathomable. It is in abstraction that I found freedom necessary to my imagination because the formal elements have all the more force as they are not put at the service of representation. They even reveal by means such as rhythm, composition, harmony of colors or use of space the sensitivity of the subject. of the artist.

My approach is based on the search for an (unconscious?) encounter or the awareness of a journey towards the other. The strengths and cracks of life? the quest for the invisible? what will emerge from the picture? This research is also undermined by the questioning that the canvas currently being developed gives me or provokes. Abstraction, which for me naturally followed on from the representation (essentially of the body: movements, energy), is an invitation to live through the imagination an infinity other lives.