Discover the contemporary work of Valerie Abadie

Valérie Abadie is a self-taught French artist, born in 1965 in Paris. Tarbes.

Coming from a family in which the activity was Artistic is strongly represented, it begins very early in life. express himself on paper and reveals his certain penchant for monochrome.

For years, she created surrealistic spontaneous contour drawings depicting plants, animals and imaginary characters.

In 1991, during a university internship at In Madrid, she discovered in the museums the works of the great Masters of world painting and fell in admiration before the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya at the Prado Museum, then in front of those of Vasili Kandinski, Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani, at the Queen Sofia Museum which this year hosts works from the Guggenheim New York Museum.

Returning to France in 1993, she began to work. draw for the first time with "fineliner" markers, using Chinese ink pigment which became his favorite tool. His subjects then evolve, and move towards landscapes, gardens and interior scenes which allow him to experiment with new textures.

Loner and dreamer, she devotes part of her free time to life. observe what surrounds him and gets into the habit of indulging in numerous photographic shots.

Nevertheless, for more than twenty years, absorbed by her professional and family life, she drew little.

In 2016, freed from certain constraints, she entered a period of sustained creation and obtained a distinction for three of her creations, during the France competition of the Social Network Art Competition of San Francisco in 2016. Which allows his work to be seen in the United States for a year, during a tour of exhibitions in galleries and public institutional sites.

In 2017, she began the development of large-format portraits which required months of work and   begins at participate in his first local group exhibitions in France.

In 2019,  she exhibited for the first time in the Parisian Art Salons, the Salon d'Automne and the Drawing and Painting Salon in Paris. water from ART CAPITAL.

At the end of 2019, she was accepted as a member of the Taylor Foundation.

In summer 2021, she is selected to participate in the London Art Biennale in London, as well as the Centenary annual exhibition of the Graphic Society of Fine Art in London,

She is finally nominated for the international English drawing competition Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021

The works of Valérie Abadie are constructed of parallel lines which intersect and overlap, and whose intensity is or spacing results in different tones of gray.

At the basis of each of his creations, there is an emotion, an encounter.

"Be true" is her key word in each of the works she undertakes.

Thus, despite a detailed technique, it is the story told that takes precedence. A very real story always tinged with imagination. A kind of unreal reality.

Like a balancing act of lines, the designer gives us her mysterious vision of the world and beings.