Discover the contemporary work of Sandra Frougier

Born in July 1971, I loved drawing from a very young age.

It was therefore quite natural that a few years later, I took an A3 baccalaureate, then the entrance exam to the Beaux Arts in Cambrai, before being accepted.

The vagaries of life led me to deviate from the path I had chosen; making me leave school to take that of life; the hardest, but the best.

Although my passion for drawing never left me, I continued to paint for myself and did commissions from time to time, but I never tried to make a living from it or make a living from it.

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge, many years have passed, until what, strangely, like a rebirth, and a new ray of sunshine in my life, I find the taste and the desire to share my passion, that of painting and drawing

Although I master several techniques, such as oil painting, Indian ink, etc., I have for years, almost exclusively, used dry pastel.

Since then, I have expanded my range of techniques (Indian ink and colored inks, oil pastel, acrylic, etc.) depending on the creations and the expected result.

This is how, depending on the subject represented, the theme addressed, and its lightness or not, I uses this or that technique.

Furthermore, refusing to confine myself to a  straitjacket, I can paint landscapes, men or animals, and all sorts of scenes.

I seek to share an emotion, a place, a situation, a memory … all of this    with my touch of graphic work; The notion of depth, or the work of perspective also hold an important place in my work.

It is a representation that is both realistic and borrowed from the imaginary, or at least evasive, that I seek to obtain.

Painting: a need, a pleasure, an outlet; These are surely the key words that give me this permanent desire to express myself through my paintings.

I will end this "About", by paying a small tribute to all these great painters like Picasso, Modigliani, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Dali …and other designers like Serre, Bilal, Bourgeon, Loisel, Tardi, Uderzo and Goscinny, Schuiten, Fourquemin …who have accompanied me and still accompany me, in the technique and style that are unique to me today and that I have surely acquired by observing them.