Echappée belle, 2018

Paule Bernard Roussel  

Born in 1949 in Saint-Étienne, has had a passion for painting since her childhood. In Lyon, she attended the École des Beaux Arts, and studied art history and archeology at the University of Letters. In 1974 creation of the Rondeur des jours workshop: painted furniture, painted objects, paintings. From 1974 to 1985: Exhibits at the Salon des Ateliers d 'art in Paris. Paule has exhibited in galleries since 1979. "She lives and works in an old Languedoc farmhouse in the middle of a large garden. She has built a visual and olfactory Eden where everything lends itself to observation, reverie, and relaxation. creation, because this place is the entrance to his studio and also the dreamlike universe of his painting.We travel there between fabulous gardens, fantastic cities, meadows, deserts, seas and skies, a world far from the crowds, populated by familiar animals where fish fly but also cars, trees, and houses. We meet extraordinary islets, uncertain boats that are so many Noah's arches whose far-sighted passengers are never melancholy. small worlds are filled with poetry, humor, hope, wisdom and harmony. His style is imbued with multiple influences ranging from classical painting, to Surrealism flirting with the Naive without ever being restricted to it. "