| Artist | Severine Pineaux | Resides | France |
| Website | pineaux.com | Medium | Oil Watercolor, Pen Pastel Gold Leaf |
| Print Shop | etsy.com/severinepineaux | s.pineaux@wanadoo.fr | |
| Representing Gallery | Daniel Maghen Gallery Paris, France Naia Museum Rochefort en Terre, France | Themes | Divine feminine Mythology Nature Spirituality Ecological Revolution Dryads Cats Animals Celtic legends |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook |
About the artist
Severine Pineaux started painting in her teens. After working as an illustrator for role-playing games and SF, horror and fantasy book covers, she resumed a personal creative adventure in 1996 after the birth of her first child, and published these works in books in which the images precede the text and narrative and are the inspiration behind them. Her work navigates between two worlds, that of painting and that of comics and illustrated books. At present, she’s also continuing to work for the game worlds, illustrating for Sorcery TCG. She lives in the Brocéliande forest, which is a great source of inspiration. She is quoted on i-cac.fr .
Severine’s paintings are a walk in a dream world, inspired by mythology and fairy tales but also by cyberpunk culture and dark romanticism where past and future intertwine. Staged in her books, they become actors and scenery of a paper theater. By merging trees and humans, plants and animals, by mixing machines and plants, she evokes the links and the unity of the world suggested by ancient spiritualities as well as by contemporary science.
The starting point of her painting is fusion. Severine perceive the contemporary world as a universe of crossbreeding where human cultures are rapidly mixing, where hybridization with machines becomes possible, where we discover that our DNA is very close to that of other living beings, where quantum entanglement abolishes distances… It is this feeling of disappearance of the borders between things that she translates into images. “I am located in the twilight zone, between the shadow and the light, I feel the strength of the feelings of love which can link the beings”. She wants to believe in the possible reconciliation between mankind and nature, but a grimacing skull is sometimes seen in the middle of flowers.
Severine Pineaux hose the classical medium of oil painting, and the figurative way to give the maximum evocative power to her mental images and also for the pure pleasure that the act of painting gives her. She tries to create with her adult technique in the state of mind of her childhood. It is very important to her to publish her paintings in creative books halfway between art book, illustrated book and comic book, it is the way she found to spread her work and tell all the stories that inhabits her mind.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Severine Pineaux depicts plant-beings, made up of accumulated leaves, bark and flowers, as Arcimboldo might have done. These dryads and fantastical animals often roam landscapes of ruined cities, reflecting ecological concerns. She uses symbolism, drawing on European Renaissance painting as much as pop culture and Celtic legends.
Press
Severine Pineaux’s paintings have been published in books, magazine and newspapers including Terra Incognita, Ysambre, le monde-arbre La Mascara, Les dragons, petit traité de sciences naturelles, Le grand bestiaire des légendes, Les dragons, Ysambre, la femme graine, Carnet de croquis, la forêt magique de Séverine Pineaux, Spectrum n°13 / Spectrum n°16 / Spectrum n°19, Gothic Faërie, Chats, le livre secret, Nature Art Today, Des sourires et des chat, Imaginaire VIII, IX, X, XI, Merveilles et légendes des Dragons, Merveilles et Légendes des Forêts Enchantées, Le Murmure des Étoiles, Infected by Art 2017 2023, Le Bestiaire des Légendes, Chats Enchantés, Le Tarot des Chats, Les Histochats, L’oracle des Créatures Légendaires, La Nymphe, le jeune homme et le temps, Le grand cercle celtique, Ouest France, Regards sur les Arts, Art Galaxie, and Univers des Arts.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| March 2024 | Group exhibition: “Salon de l’Oracle et du Tarot” | Paimpont – Morbihan – France |
| October 2024 | Group exhibition: “Salon d’automne” | Lunéville – France |
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Education
1978 Drawing Workshop Baudry, Paris
1981 – Bachelor’s degree in plastic arts University Paris VIII
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
“Le Chapin de Noël“, La Porte des Secrets, Paimpont, France
2022
“Le Chapin de Noël“, La Porte des Secrets, Paimpont, France
2017
“La Nature Féerique” Galerie Le Croissant de Lune, Landerneau, France
“La Forêt Magique“, la Porte des Secrets, Paimpont, France
2016
“Galerie Duc d’Aquitaine“, Vouvant, France
2015
“Morgane“, Office du tourisme, Trehorenteuc, France
2014
“Galerie Duc d’Aquitaine“, Vouvant, France
2013
“Feuille et Fées“, Office du tourisme, Trehorenteuc, France
2012
“Gothic Faërie“, Château de Comper en Brocéliande, France
“La forêt magique“, Office du tourisme, Trehorenteuc, France
2011
“Gothic Faërie“, Galerie Petits Papiers, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
“Un voyage en Bretagne Féerique“, Le petit echo de la mode, Châtelaudren – France
“Dream & Divinities“, Beacon, Londres, England
“Salon d’automne“, Lunéville, France
“Déclic 23“, Aixe sur Vienne, France
2022
“Salon d’Automne”, Lunéville, France
“Les Fées font la mode“, la Porte des Secrets, Paimpont, France
2023
“Fantastiques fonds marins“, Château de Noirmoutier, France
“Le cheval dans tous ses états“, La Gacilly, France
“Salon d’été“, St Gildas de Rhuys, France
“Les fées font la mode“, Porte des secrets, Paimpont, France
“Emergence”, A Chance for Happiness, Vienne, Austria
“Saison 2021“, Naïa Museum, Rochefort en Terre, France
“Salon d’automne“, Lunéville, France
“Hal’art“, Vézélise, France
2020
“Ondes et Lumières de Brocéliande”, La porte des Secrets, Paimpont
“Tribute to Lewwis Caroll”, Langes Magazin, Frederikssun, Denmark
2019
“Safadore”, Mont Dore, France
“Créatures des eaux“, Château de Comper en Brocéliande, France
“Festival des imaginaires“, Ravières, France
“Art fantastique”, Museum im Schafstall, Neuenstadt, Germany
“Salon d’automne“, Lunéville, France
“Fantastique“, Médiathèque de Vannes, France
“Mélusine“, Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs sur Bologne, France
“Shooteurs du chaos“, Galerie Manjari, Paris, France
2018
“Salon du portrait“, le Mans, France
“Elles aussi“, La Roche Bernard, France
“Cerf sacré“, Château de Comper en Brocéliande, Concoret, France
“Chiméria“, Sedan, France
“Salon d’automne“, Lunéville, France
2017
“Fantastiske Figurationner“, Galerie Grud Grothe Charlottenlund, Denmark
“Art Galerie Callas”, Bremen, Germany
“IFA“, Tokyo, Japon
Salon d’Automne – Luneville – France
“IFA“, Réalité Secrète, Paris, France
“Dream&Divinities“, Cerf sacré, Paris, France
