Christine Jean-Guyader

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Painting is in my soul what music is in my senses.

Born in 1952 in Nevers, after scientific studies and career, and supplementary trainings in humanist subjects, enthralled by colours and forms since childhood, I start my artistic course by singing and painting for my pleasure following lessons and participating in workshops. My first pictorial expressions are figurative, then in 2003 I discover “inventive mandalas” or “centered drawings” which open me to more "unprompted “ creativity.

For several years I improved in the approach of abstract painting which is meant to be lyric and unprompted using the way of body and gesture.

By meeting the painter colourist Muriel Cayet I discover peculiar and innovative techniques as the aquagraphie, use of mineral powders, collages, I use since broadly in my paintings.

I usually create my paintings in a kind of emotional urgency where color, gesture carry and lead me to this unknown that emerges from my unconscious … Exposed, laid bare, up to dare the glance: mine and the other’s on this moment, "the here and now" put on the canvas ...

I play with many different materials : acrylics and oils, minerals, pigments, collage, gold leaf, pastel, and I change according to my mood size and holder.

I find inspiration in my look at nature and in mysteries of life, and I often work listening to music. 

My works carry everyone away in the world of dream and imagination.

"Flashing! 

Thus we could, initially, at first glance, on the first second, describe a painting by Christine Jean-Guyader. 

But "flashing" is not enough to describe her work.

Certainly the color explodes under the brush, under the knife; but the main thing, when we linger, when we approach, is the pulsing of an incredible strength that we feel clearly. She knows how to fit textures together, play with matter which glitter, which pulse, how to link materials that make up the painting. Painting of quest, of search, of sharing, generously offered to our glance.

Flashing, sensitive, full of life, her painting is also joyful and deep. It follows the painter’s emotions beat, but most the emotions beat of the one who look at, the spectator, he who has a place in this story.

How to describe this painting ? Abstraction ? Perhaps, but not only, not totally. It seems have distanced itself from representation to suggest the main, the first emotion, the one which does not describe what we feel, the one which does not look like something familiar but in which we can all find ourselves. We recognize here a dream, there a landscape, over there a thought ... And we'll walk around happily!

Flashing, pulsing, alive, strong and deep ... The painting by Christine is the whole.

And also human; heartful and generous. It likes to be shared ! 

It takes us with it, carries us away, leads us to all our inner travels, become accessible and always warm.

A painting of life, of life that pulse on the canvas, of life that is seen ... "Muriel Cayet, Artist, colorist, Member of the European Academy of Arts-France, wrote.

In short, I would describe myself as an abstract colorist spontaneous and lyric artist.

I also work on commission, depending on your interior decoration and home’s harmony. 

Some of my paintings photographs have also been used to illustrate books around Fenshui and well-being. 

I am listed at Drouot.

I am a member of "Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec".

I live in Charentilly near Tours in France.

Awards

1er prix technique mixte du 4ème Salon Artistique d’Été de Meillant (18200).

1er prix du 25ème salon des Arts-Plastiques de la Rochelle (17000) en 2011.

1er prix de peinture à l’huile au Salon du Brin d’Or 2011 à Charenton du Cher (18210).

Prix Pierre de Ronsard au Château de Beaumont la Ronce (37360) le 8 mai 2011.

Prix du Grand Bressuire au 32ème Salon de Peinture de Bressuire (79300) en avril 2011.

1er prix techniques originales au 34ème Salon Artistique de Saint Florent du Cher en avril 2011. 

ARTMAJEUR SILVER AWARD 2011

Prix du Crédit Mutuel au 10ème Salon International de Nantes Façade Atlantique en Novembre 2010.

Prix du public au 16ème Salon d’Automne de la ville de Vierzon (18100) en octobre 2010.

1er prix de peinture abstraite au 3ème Salon Artistique d’été à Meillant (18200) en juillet 2010.

Médaille de Bronze au 24ème Salon des Arts-Plastiques de La Rochelle (17000) en juin 2010.

ARTMAJEUR SILVER AWARD 2010

Diplôme d'Honneur pour la qualité exceptionnelle des oeuvres présentées au 6ème salon des Arts dans les galeries "Art et Culture" et "Art Galerie", organisé par Art et Culture à Saint Marcel (36200) en octobre 2009.

ARTMAJEUR SILVER AWARD 2009

Primée au 24ème "Salon d'Automne de Saint-Avertin" (37550) en octobre 2008.