Annick Bouvattier is a figurative painter based in Paris. She was born in 1964 in Nevers, France. Her father, a pediatrician and art lover, instilled a taste for painting from her earliest childhood.
She captures seemingly insignificant gestures in the everyday lives of beautiful women. Trivial moments, fleeting glances, words unspoken, speechless stories. She is a painter of silences that many beholders have savored.
In 1982 she graduated from art school but refused the family tradition of medical research. She aimed for fashion school and later designed costumes for Cinecittà Studios in Rome. From her Italian experience comes her use of deep, warm, sensual colors like ochres, velvet reds, intense blues, and deep greens.
“La femme a toujours été le premier sujet de peinture de l’humanité. Mes peintures s’inscrivent résolument dans le monde dans lequel nous vivons, dans notre présent.”
Annick Bouvattier
In 1990 she devoted herself wholly to painting. After two years of self-training, she studied with Pierre Ramel who taught her the painting-knife technique. She smooths out her oils to achieve transparency. Her women are alone or together in almost empty apartments with scanty furniture, looking wonderful against backgrounds of light and shadow. They live their own lives, feminine and modest, indifferent to outside views. Each has her own unsaid story.
Her works have been shown in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome, and acclaimed by fashion designers. She has exhibited in Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes, Brussels, Strasbourg, London, and New York. Her paintings invite viewers to enter the secret world of femininity from the inside, where beauty is natural and stories are reinvented by imagination.
What subjects does Annick Bouvattier paint?
She paints women in everyday moments, capturing trivial gestures, fleeting glances, and silences. Her subjects are beautiful, young, and feminine, living their own stories in apartments filled with light and shadow.
What technique does Annick Bouvattier use?
She uses the painting-knife technique taught by Pierre Ramel. She smooths out her oils to achieve transparency. Her colors are deep, warm, and sensual, inspired by her Italian experience.
Where has Annick Bouvattier exhibited her work?
She has exhibited in Paris, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes, Brussels, Strasbourg, London, and New York. Her works have also been shown at the Villa Medici in Rome and the Salon d’Automne at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Annick Bouvattier was born in 1964 in Nevers, France, and designed costumes for Cinecittà Studios in Rome before devoting herself entirely to painting in 1990.
