Brigitte DU MERAC

CURRICULUM VITAE

BRIGITTE DU MERAC
84,rue Blomet 75015 PARIS-FRANCE
Tél/Fax: 01 40 45 00 40
http://dumerac-gallery.net
http://dumerac.free.fr

ART STUDIES
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués (Duperré Art School)
Training in Art-Drawing in the studios of the City of Paris
Student at La Grande Chaumière (Paris)

AWARDS
Silver Medal (Frette-sur-Seine)
Honour Medal (Versailles)
E.Bernard's Award (Cormeilles)
A.Prince's Award (Beauchamp)
Maurice Martin's Award (Moret-sur-Loing)
Taylor Foundation's Award
Purchase of the City of Paris (1993)
First Prize of the City of Paris (1996)
Gold Medal (Frette sur Seine)(2001)
First Prize of the City of Corbeille (2002)
Medal of the City of Moret-sur-Loing (2003)
Mark Price, Petit - Charenton (2003)

EXHIBITIONS
Salon des Indépendants (member), Paris
Salon des Artistes Français (member), Paris
Shows in Versailles,Vanves,Rambouillet,Cormeilles,Pontoise,Chatou,Maisons-Laffitte,Bourg-La-Reine,Enghien-les-Bains,Paris…
Personal exhibitions in France and abroad:
Nicosia (Cyprus,1994),Brussels (Belgium 1997,1999,2000),Lille (France,1997),Lausanne (Switzerland,1999,2000,2001),New York (U.S.A,1998), Hamburg (Germany,1999),Berlin (2000)
Hong-Kong (2001), GMAC (Paris, from 1997 o 2002)
Permanently at the EVERARTS Gallery, Paris
Private collections, Public auctions

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Brigitte du Mérac is a landscape painter whose figurative means of expression excels in the treatment of country atmosphere. She is equally gifted for scenes set in the street, at markets, outside cafés. Her paintings are vibrant with limpid colours creating a beneficial silence, respite and serenity. The depth of her works, the mystery of backgrounds, her ode to joy are incentives to dream and escape.

A.Morice

I feel painting is a fulfillment which I currently try and make people share in giving them moments of joy, poetry and emotion. I love colour, light, harmony, faraway spaces that induce dream and escape. My favourite subjects are Brittany and the South of France, but I also enrich my vision with wide new horizons taken from my travels all over the world. I first capture the lush of nature which surrounds me by listening, breathing fragrances, feeling coolness, heat or wind, that is to say, the atmosphere. I then choose the lines and stresses which my painting will be composed of. Emotion arises from these multiple encounters, that I like to express on canvas. I am a personal admirer of Rembrandt, Goya, but also Pissarro, Monet, Corot, Turner, Cézanne and de Staël: These are my masters. They motivate me to get higher and improve.

Brigitte du Mérac

Brigitte DU MERAC.