Virginie Billault-Toquin / Painter and Sculptor

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Virginie Billault-Toquin / Painter and Sculptor

Virginie is a painter and sculptor connected to life.

She works on the theme of nature: animals and the forest are her sources of inspiration. She explores them through different materials: clay, plaster, wood, fabrics, bronze, glass, acrylic.

Born in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours in Seine-et-Marne in 1967.
She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Sculpture Section).

Her work on the forest...
Virginie considers the forest as a mysterious place,
We enter it by winding paths that lead us, and sometimes
We enter the forest by winding paths that lead us, and sometimes lose us, into a tiny, dark and gloomy depth.
From the material projected onto the canvas by rapid and spontaneous movements, vegetal silhouettes are born, immense wild and disordered saplings. Branches and trunks cross each other in a jumble of lines filtering the light.
The sun's beam, piercing the foliage, becomes the only landmark and the only hope of escape. A sort of unexpected replica of human nature. And everything that makes it, in a way, its unspeakable richness...
Her work on animals...
Virginie does not seek to reproduce animals in detail but rather to express an attitude, a behaviour, a character typical of the animal in its wild and instinctive state.

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All year round.