A year ago, Virginie Bossion, 56, a native of Dordogne and resident of Parempuyre for eighteen years, had never touched a brush or a drawing pencil. For six months, she has been active around her colored tubes, like one clings to a buoy… Financial and administrative director, well established in a Bordeaux company, she is the victim of burn-out and the descent into hell begin.
At the age of 18, to leave the countryside, she went to Mexico for six months, making a second family there which she had just visited after many years of absence. “These people changed my life,” says Virginie Bossion. Back in France, she settled in Bordeaux, took on odd jobs, went back to school, found a good job, created a family with two sons, Quentin and Arthur, her support when their mother became ill.
“So two years ago,” says Virginie Bossion, “complete collapse, no more self-confidence, no center of interest, my life consisted of work and nothing else. I did a skills assessment with a psychologist who advised me to join the Burnettes de Talence association, who advised me to find something to do. Spontaneously I thought of pictorial art, and I ran to buy paints, brushes and knives. »
Well surrounded by friends, in four months, she produced 100 paintings which did not leave anyone indifferent, even if she thought that the critics were only there to please her. But what to do with this production? Gifts first… and a first outing to the Christmas market, then in March an exhibition with the Artists of the Washhouse and joining the TAP. “Painting is my escape, it’s what saved me!” » Ninou’s Star (the name her father gave her) shines above her, especially since she has just learned that her father also painted.
Virginie Bossion’s painting is oriented towards the abstract, oil, knife, aerosol and recycling. “Everything inspires me, a concert, a discussion, a landscape… I like the geometric side. »
