Charlotte Guibé

Is it because she spent the first two years of her young life (she was born in 1982) bathed in the light of ancient culture, in the shadow of umbrella pines surrounding the Villa Médicis, or is it because she grew up in painter’s and sculptor’s studios, in creative writing workshops that Charlotte Guibé became a painter? Who can tell the secret behind one’s calling as an artist?

Very early on, she picked her language, discarding words, that lack immediacy, and selecting painting instead. Having studied for five years at the Paris School of Fine Arts [l’École des Beaux-arts], she discovered all the complexity of contemporary art and determinedly forged her own path. She thus decided to paint, knowing perfectly well that this is not the best way to get attention about her own work…

During a residency in the French region of Périgord noir, she produced a series of black paintings called The Night Reveals, an allusion to cave art…She experienced loneliness, the condition of the painter, and the importance of the location.

A residency at the Casa Velasquez (The French Art Academy in Madrid) inspired her to face interdisciplinarity: thus she embraced photography, cinema and music. Her first Dinners became the starting point of a musical and dancing piece that includes a painter and twelve musicians.

Starting in 2005, her journey takes her back and forward to China where she experiments a major discovery: she connects to the country and its people, and even adopts certain tools used by Chinese painters. 

Partnership project in artistic and cultural education for the 2022-2023 school year


Presentation of the action

Approach the pictorial medium by making a painting kit. This material will include a box of colors and brushes. These tools will be made up of objects found during walks in the countryside and by the sea, to find, for example, shells, pieces of wood, feathers, horsehair… plant or animal elements gleaned. It will be a question of underlining the various elements which are offered to us in nature and in daily life and which can constitute a material of painting. Thus we will be able to approach the different materials of the painter from their manufacture, but also the colors their origins and their names, until the realization of paintings with this same material

Goals

  • Understand what are the components of the paint material, understand the colors
  • Sharpen your eye and approach the chromatic vocabulary, the poetic aspect of color, perceive and see, project yourself into the different stages of creation.
  • Discover the different ways to create a color harmony by making color charts.
  • Make patterns with unique brushes, paint with these brushes
  • Integrate an audience through collective and performative workshops

History 

Seashells by their shapes and colors have amazed since the origin of humanity. Sensitive to beauty, the first human societies used shells for the most diverse uses according to their shapes, colors and sizes: weapon, utensil, container, necklace, adornment, currency, oil lamp, bird feeder , bath for children or holy water fonts, make-up box but also paint palette. An example has even come down to us from prehistory: a painting kit, dated 100,000 years ago, was unearthed in a cave in South Africa, abalones were used there as containers and one of them was closed by a stone that protected its contents.

 

Make your painting equipment and use it


Manufacturing: Glean, collect, get out of class, walk in nature and look for what we can possibly use to draw and paint: pieces of cut wood, feathers, earth, horsehair, hair, shells, tree leaves...

Understand what the paint material and the mixtures that constitute it are made of, as well as the vocabulary that is specific to it: binder, pigments, adjuvant...
but also the different materials that can be used to make paint and that can be found at home: linseed oil, casein-yogurt, turmeric…
Thus the both prosaic and alchemical or even magical aspect of painting will be approached by the very action of making the paint.

Create brushes using materials found and gleaned from the countryside: bristles

Realization: Paint patterns with the brushes made. Mixing and superimposing colors
Invent color charts, give names to certain colors
Exhibit work and share learnings with an audience

"Little poems in color"

with Charlotte Guibé

We are very happy to host our first artist in residency, Charlotte Guibé for the project "Little poems in color" in collaboration with the primary schools of Longueil, St Marguerite sur mer and Quiberville, supported by la DRAC Normandy, la Communauté de Communes Terroir de Caux and la Commune de Longueil.