At the same time, she was spotted by the departmental delegate of Arts and Letters of France, Gabrielle Furlan, who invited her to become a member of the association, which gave her access to the highly consulted website at the national and international level Arts et Lettres de France, on which she posts some photos of her paintings. “It is on this site that salons, gallery owners and other collectors do their market, in a way,” explains the painter.
From Toulouse to Manhattan
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The Thuillier gallery, located on rue de Thorigny in Paris, noticed her paintings and suggested that Catherine exhibit three of her works at the Salon de Rencontre, next September. The artist is also invited to participate in an international exhibition in Toulouse as part of the Art and Music event of Arts et Lettre de France, from September 30 to October 5. A series of highlights of his work that doesn’t stop there! At the end of June, Catherine Baylet flew to New York to present her work in a Manhattan gallery, The International Art Price New York. The opportunity for her to meet artists from all over the world and to make herself better known.
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Catherine Baylet’s style has evolved considerably in just a few years. If she continues her figurative work in Indian ink, she sets about painting semi-figurative acrylics, “revisited” mountain landscapes in bright and saturated colors, abstract, although taken from reality. And it is this work that is particularly noted.
A style that evolves
“I mainly paint matter, rock, mineral, snow sometimes, pasture too. I love lying in the grass, it recharges me and I love this green color. » confides the artist. His paintings reflect this duality between the softness of the pastures and the hardness of the rock, a duality that we find in his personality. “I transfigure the current landscape so that it always remains beautiful, while the figurative risks no longer being so. By sawing the branch we are on, by mishandling and exhausting the Earth, our nourishing mother, what will become of it? And above all, what will become of us? It’s almost a political message that I’m sending to those who want to see it. »
Invited to New York, Toulouse and Paris, Catherine does not yet realize the scope of these events. “It makes me want to continue, to go higher, and to integrate another artistic sphere. I am climbing the ladder step by step, my ambition being to reach the top of the ladder! she jokes. I love Béarn, it’s my birthplace and it’s where I draw my inspiration from. But I aim to make our mountains shine far and wide through my painting. »
That’s all the bad we wish him.
