Do Fournier is a contemporary painter from Guerande, Brittany, France, born in 1951. She began her career as a successful illustrator but changed her focus to painting in 1984. Her works have been featured in numerous prestigious exhibitions in France, including the Salon d’Automne in Paris.
Do Fournier at a glance
- Born: 1951, Guerande, Brittany, France
- Nationality: French
- Known for: Colorful, intimate paintings of home interiors
- Career: Started as an illustrator; full-time painter since 1984
- Training: Penninghen Institute, Paris
- Influences: The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Maurice Denis
- Awards: Taylor Foundation Prize
- Exhibited: Salon d’Automne, Paris
She creates fantastic, colorful, and intimate works inspired by her home, which overlooks the sea. Her family, pets, and collection of objects d’art, rugs, and textiles are her primary subjects. She also draws inspiration from the 19th-century Nabis painters, including Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard.
Her domestic interiors are transformed into extraordinary environments filled with color, texture, and pattern. She captures fleeting moments of joy, peace, and sensuality that are often overlooked in everyday life. Her work is not about describing pain but the potential for joy in an uneasy society.
“Her approach in an uneasy society is not to describe it’s pain but the potential it still has for joy, it’s fragile moments of charm and peacefulness stolen from a routine existence.” – Gerard Xuriguera
Her paintings feature serene scenes of young women dozing off, surrounded by profusions of earthenwares, carpets, and warm-colored drapery. She transposes onto canvas the moments of happiness that life conceals. Her art is a refreshing and greedy celebration of life.
Her universe is unique, though it shows the influence of great masters. She is a painter of atmospheres, blending intimacy with a baroque sensibility. She has won the Taylor Foundation Price and has studied at the Penninghen “Met” Institute in Paris.
Q: What defines Do Fournier’s artistic style?
A: Her vibrant, intimate domestic scenes that blend the influence of the Nabis with a contemporary sensibility. She captures fleeting moments of joy and sensuality, transforming everyday interiors into extraordinary environments filled with color, pattern, and texture.