Discover the contemporary work of Patricia Gitenay

Patricia Gitenay is a French artist of Belgian origin.

Her painting is silent and lyrical, scenes of life surprising by their presence, as well as places chosen and photographed at random from her walks or travels, which she transposes with her colors onto his paintings. Edward Hopper inspires him a lot, his atmospheres of solitude, of silence..
Lyon keeps her preference, she regularly paints atmospheres, places that challenge her.

At the beginning, she reproduced paintings by the great masters, with precision, portraits, still lifes as well as dogs. Very quickly, he was ordered to copies of family paintings. The texture of the skin, the eyelashes, the hair, the hands, the eyes, all the details of the clothing fascinated her.
Then she worked on the theme of dogs, generally on order (according to photos), their company, their eyes translate so many emotions that speech does not seem foreign to them. necessary.

Portrait:
Capture an emotion...
Patricia Gitenay has always been challenged by looks, both human and animal. She likes to capture their expressions to transmit on the canvas the emotions that emerge from them.
If this Lyon artist paints animals: dogs, game, large animals,... she also likes to create works on themes such as urban architecture and life scenes in the style of Edward Hopper, her favorite painter.
As Bernard Gouttenoire says: « Patricia Gitenay gives us a world of lights. People and cities appropriate an almost naive space with a power of seduction that oscillates between the paginations inspired by Hopper and the offbeat universe of modernity. by Tati. Many reasons to marvel... »

I take random photos from my trips or walks, I print them then I start to create them. I sketch a rough outline of the subject on my canvas, with a brush but with very diluted paint, then I start over again and again until I have finished. judge the finished painting.

Oil has the advantage of drying slowly, which allows you to come back to it several times.

I really like it!

I have always exhibited, individually or collectively.