Hélène Zanet

My paintings are the expression of feelings, and the unveiling of the soul ...

Loulou, diminutive of my first name Hélène, is the summary of the sweetness and energy that animates me ...
As a little girl, I have always been immersed in the artistic family atmosphere, all self-taught.
For several years I have been practicing the "living workshop" at the Beaux Arts in Lyon, because what makes me 'vibrate' is the expression of feelings, which I retranslate using color, the visual narrative expression of the body. , and ... my guts!

My universe is like the story of a feminine world, very sweet and melancholy, dreamy, but also sometimes violent in its emotions and achievements, on things that are not always said ...

So an assumed risk? Yes, because at the time when the search for beauty no longer exists, I persist and sign, because love, melancholy, eroticism just suggested, without going with the flow, are the common threads of my paintings, of my stories.
I offer you dreams, where many can recognize themselves, it is a schooner that takes you to another place ...

Explore my universe, and make way for emotions ...

Techniques and sources
Monnet, Dali, Hopper are among my reference painters.
Mixing abstract and figurative, I bring out female bodies that emerge from dreams and also from reality.
I paint as I wish ...

I use inks, acrylics, oil sometimes collage of silk sheets prepared by myself, and copper sheets, as well as organic paint and earth pigments.
Sometimes Posca and charcoal are found in my paintings.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see ...

Without colors there is no life, and I cannot live without colors.