After Maguy Lafaysse very recently, the two Saint-Serninoises are exhibiting 109 paintings in the municipal council room where you can discover all the techniques such as pastel, oil, acrylic, Indian ink and enamels.
Another very exceptional painting exhibition is on offer at the priory where the magnificent municipal council room will host the paintings of two Saint-Serninoises until November 17, 2024: Anne-Marie Minois and Cathy Michot. Anne-Marie Minois has already exhibited several times at the Saint-Sernin priory, notably with Raymond Rochette to whom the artist, during the opening this Saturday evening, was to pay tribute for having been her mentor. Anne-Marie Minois included photography in her activities more than ten years ago and even joined the Le Creusot photo club. Over the decades, she has acquired a technique, knowledge and values that have allowed her to evolve in photography but not only that… Indeed, the photographer, who since her childhood has always drawn, recalls her meeting with Raymond Rochette at the Jean Jaurès high school: “I was 16 and he was my drawing teacher. He said to me one day: come see me, he’s the one who showed me how to paint…”. Since then, Anne-Minois has explored all techniques, acrylic, oil, watercolor, oil and dry pastel…. Curious and insatiable, she even took advantage of a professional break in 1999 to discover the difficult techniques of enamel following a very prolific internship on the subject in Limoges. The result is stunning. We can discover her work on enamel among the 54 works hanging on the grid of the exhibition room where we can contemplate at length several portraits of women alongside landscapes sketched on the hexagon, flowers and animals including several cats. Anne-Marie Minois took watercolor lessons at the Mira gallery and spent around ten years at the Société des Beaux arts du Creusot and admits to feeling a strong passion for watercolor. “I have tried all the techniques but I feel myself in watercolor, even if it is very difficult to master…”.
A first exhibition in Saint-Sernin for Cathy Michot
After a very first exhibition in Montchanin followed by a second in Perreuil, Cathy Michot is very happy to take a new step and to find herself alongside her friend at the priory of Saint-Sernin for this present exhibition and beautiful collaboration. A great first in a way for the Saint-Serninoise who has signed 55 paintings including 29 pastels, a technique that she is particularly fond of and which she discovered very recently (in February 2023) at the Mira gallery in Le Creusot: “With Celine! » she wants to clarify. Cathy loves working with pastel: “It's more detailed than acrylic and when I do pastel, I forget everything, even preparing meals…it's a real passion, yes I found my way with pastel. pastel…” she explains, revealing surprising works of quality such as her paintings of cats next to a group of paintings created especially for children. Here we cannot remain indifferent to a happy rabbit rubbing shoulders with a mouse, a hedgehog, a wolf and even a superb Apache. The work is neat and invites you to pose smilingly in front of all its colorful subjects. And how to walk past the portraits of artists made in black and white without stopping too. Pagny, Eddy, Gainsbourg, Dutronc and our national Jojo complete a truly beautiful presentation.
Pascale Fallourd, mayor of Saint-Sernin, was excused for the opening and was represented by Jean-Marc Hippolyte, first deputy and departmental advisor. During his speech, the former mayor of the village quoted Christian Bobin: “A painter is someone who wipes the window between the world and us with a cloth soaked in light…” he said in turning to the two artists, before recalling the importance of art, culture, and the vocation of this magnificent marriage and council hall which lends itself wonderfully to this type of presentation. “This room has already seen several dozen painters exhibit their creations here, including certainly Raymond Rochette whose shadow hovers in this room! “.
J-C.P
The exhibition can be discovered on the first floor of the Saint-Sernin town hall from November 10 to 17 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
