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A sumptuous exhibition gallery on over 500m². Come and discover the work of known artists and upcoming talents: illustration, painting, sculpture, photography… Brian & Wendy Froud Born in Winchester in 1947, Brian Froud is
the specialist of fairies, goblins and other fairy creatures.
He has dedicated numerous books to them (among others with Terry
Jones of the Monty Pythons and Alan Lee): Faeries, Goblins !,
The World of Faeries, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairies, The
Runes of Elflands, Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells…
Wendy Froud gets her inspiration from the same universe to create her puppets and sculptures, of which some were created for the Muppet Show and Star Wars (Yoda, to name only one).
Link: www.worldoffroud.com Sabine Adélaïde When the doors of the invisible open, Sabine Adélaïde creates sensitive images. A Life Artist, she finds her inspiration in the feminine, nature spirits, the inner child, faery…
A true musician of the painting brush, she illustrates the sounds of the music label Prikosnovénie with her personal light. From the depths of artistic sensitivity, she reveals to us a poetic and dreamy world that becomes intrinsically linked with the music she represents. Links: www.sabine-adelaide.com - www.prikosnovenie.com Laura David Laura David has always painted and drawn. As a little girl she used to say "When I grow old I'll be a painter!" It is then only natural that she studied art and graphic design at Saint Luc in Liège.
Photomontage becomes her favourite domain, together with papier maché, her favourite tool as a child. Slowly but surely, she turns to polymer paste with the continuous desire to incorporate more and more new elements. These two elements can now be found in her creations. Links: lauradavid.canalblog.com - lauradaviddolls.blogspot.com Epie Born in Annonay, land of hot air balloons, Epie has her head in the clouds but her feet firmly on the ground. A trained photographer, she spends hours waiting for the perfect shot. Insects, birds, faeries, elves and goblins, a whole little world to protect. By mixing nature shots and studio work, a little body-painting and some costumes, a new project was born: making young and old aware of the tight link between the fairy world, nature and what we do.
If it is more and more difficult to spot fairies, elves, goblin, it is because they are rarer and rarer, small, transparent… And just like animals and plants, forced to adapt, flee or die. Epie finds her inspiration in natural and reusable elements, but also in various illustrations of Jean Baptiste Monge, Erlé Ferronniére, Olivier Ledroit or Arthur Rackham... And of course Alan Lee et Brian Froud. Link: www.epie.fr Martine Fassier After a degree in crafts arts, applied arts and then graphic arts, Martine fassier turned to illustration. From drawing to calligraphy and photography, Martine is always on the lookout for new graphic alliances, reflecting her favourite inspirations: those of the Symbolists and the Pre-Raphaelites, the ancient myths and the tales of her childhood, and, of course, the cinema.
Working in book or postcard illustrations, exhibitions and
festivals, she is soon to release a book of illustrated fables.
Link: www.martinefa.fr Valérie Frances Born in 1975, Valérie Frances has a degree in science. Her preference for biology, probably because of its more literary aspect, the writing of articles about great whales or killer sharks and her fondness of anglo saxon fantasy literature quite naturally lead to her writing her own texts, dark as hell. She is the writer, among others, of an essay on sea monsters (published in l’Emblèmes sur la mer, Oxymore Publishing) as well as a book on Eragon (in the special edition DVD box released by Fox Pathé Europe) and several short stories in various fanzines (in Belgium or even Quebec). She is now focusing on writing children's books.
For a few years, she has been extending her artistic production to drawing, painting and clay sculpting. After two years of drawing courses, she turns to ink and watercolours and sets up her first exhibitions. She is now working on an artistic project and animation. Link: www.lefantastique.net/valerie-frances/ Véronik Gendarme Véronik Gendarme is a Belgian artist living in Saint-Vincent (Gaume). Self taught, she started painting in 1991. She participated to numerous exhibitions in Belgium and France and was awarded several prizes (festival d'art de Neufchâteau, Thionville, Talange, Hagondange). A landscape painter at first, she has now moved to a more symbolist-fantasy style, focusing on the strange and extravagant forms offered by plants and minerals.
Sandrine Gestin Sandrine Gestin is the quintessential artist of fantasy. It is our immense pleasure to share her work with you at the third edition of Trolls & Légendes. She will be displaying some of her best pieces. Her work finds its inspiration in the numerous legends of Brittany, epic and fantasy stories. Magic and beauty characterise her work, with feminine or androgynous and delicate creatures that make her work visual poetry.
Links: www.sandrinegestin.com - www.faiseurs.com Lady Ghostington
Link: www.ghostington.com Joot Joot was born in the Gard and now lives in South Ardèche. A passionate photographer, he has created a huge database of pictures he now uses to create his photomontages. He now works around themes essentially influenced by popular cinema: the Tolkien universe, Tarantino or also Sergio Leone and mafia movies.
Link: www.joot.book.fr Cécile Lensen Passionate about legends and fairy tales, Cécile Lansen created Ygora.net when she was 16 to share her passion with others. She has made various illustrations among which the cover illustrations for th Damenndyn saga of Rose Beryl.
Her inspirations come from ancient lore, but also from illustrators and painters of the XIXth and XXth centuries. To bring those thwo passions together, she is now working on a dissertation on the subject of present-day children's books. Links: www.ygora.net - nainie.deviantart.com Laurence Peguy Born in 1978 in the Landes, Laurence Peguy has walways been passionate about drawing. After a degree in arts at the Orleans institute of Visual Arts and one at the Emile Cohl drawing school of Lyon (with "le Rêve de Dotchi, a short animation film of 3 minutes telling the story of a little boy's magical quest in Mongolia), she sets off to the Anglo-Saxon countries. First in the USA, working as a portrait artist in the Florida Disney amusement park, then in Kilkenny, Ireland, for the Cartoon Saloon as a 2D animator, and finally in London, at Framestores CFC, working on special effects of movies like X-Men 3, The Golden Compass and the Tale of Desperaux.
Back in France, she turns to painting and other personal projects in a fairy universe of another genre: gothic/slam. She has numerous influences, from Mucha, Klimt, Burnes-Jones, Gustave Moreau and Aubrey Beardsley, to Waterhouse and John Sargent, or also Tim Burton… among many others. Her muse is Alan Rickman, the ultimate actor who haunts her dreams and her drawings. Link: www.la-pensine-d-harry-potter.com
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