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"Painting is always going further, in a work never finished."
"Painting is in my eyes a quest for emotions and feelings. A fight for life, for art, for the imagination, in a work always in search, in research, of "to make live."
Julie Fournier, alias Bellule, grew up in an artistic universe with a painter mother and a musician father. She graduated from the Beaux Arts d'Angers in 2011, before perfecting her technique in the studio of a hyperrealist painter.
Very quickly, this passionate young woman feels that she must fly on her own and find her true style. Expressionism inspires her as well as the battle with the material, this physical need to play with it to get the essence of her emotion out of it.
Her influences are multiple, because for her, "painting is timeless and never stops being and to be reborn".
In her expressionist work, from figurative to abstract, an imaginative, sensitive and detail-oriented personality shines through. Bellule draws her inspiration from her own feelings but also from the external energies that feed her creativity. She loves to travel and get lost in nature to fill her head with images and sensations that cultivate her imagination.
Portraiture has been her favorite theme for many years, where she expresses her fascination with the expression of human sensitivity and how it can manifest itself in a look, behind the features of a face. Over time, Bellule has narrowed the gap between figuration and abstraction, creating portraits with a freer interpretation. The faces become fragmented, hidden, the portrait is no longer the only subject of the work and the work aims, beyond the representation, to express states of mind, the facets of a being. She likes to study the idea of what is shown, what is, what is seen, what is imagined, what is interpreted...
Emotion is the heart of her work as in her Urbex series, disused interiors with a particular atmosphere where nature takes over, leaving all the room to the imagination, through games of depth and perspectives, atmospheres between reality and fiction that give us the feeling of traveling through the painting.
Finally, since 2020, Bellule has been using her experiments with matter in a more intuitive painting, abstractions, imaginary worlds in 3 dimensions in which she puts all her creative energy according to her feelings, her experience to transmit us all the power and upset our senses with generosity and sincerity.
Bellule tries to "activate" an inner dialogue in the viewer, whether he is conscious or not, and to make the moving magic of painting act on him. The important thing for her is to challenge, to touch, to upset the senses and to create an internal dialogue by mixing aestheticism and emotion by mixing strength and delicacy. The first impact at the sight of the work is primordial because it results from direct instinctive emotional effects.
ARTISTIC INFLUENCES :
Artists such as Munch, Turner, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Yan Pei-Ming, Jenny Saville, lyrical abstract painters such as Georges Mathieu, Hartung inspire her and immerse her in their universe. Also contemporary and emerging painters like Danielle Coenen, Romaric Art, Ozan Virgule, Jamel Akib, Michel Petrelli, Antoine Stevens and many others.
DIPLOMAS OBTAINED
2011 Certificate of Higher Studies in Plastic Arts, School of Fine Arts in Angers. 2010 National Diploma of Plastic Arts, School of Fine Arts of Angers.
2005 Baccalaureate in Fine Arts, Lycée Louis de Broglie, Marly le Roi.
TRAININGS
2004 2005-2007 2007-2011 2011-2014
Training course in engraving
School of visual communication (ECV), Paris School of Fine Arts of Angers.
Training Workshop "Arteffects", Vesinet-le pecq
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2024 (To come) - Personal exhibition - media library of Crès 2021 Les jardins de Chiron, Sauve, France
2020 Chez Steffil et son univers, Sauve, France
2019 The Delicatessen, Toulouse, France
2017 Harmonic Festival, Trigance, France
2017 N.O.D World people, Slovenia
2017 Festival Triskel, Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Quebec 2016 MPT4M, Villard-de-Lans, France
2016 Le Batofar, Paris, France
2014 La petite entreprise, Marly le Roi, France
2014 Restaurant " la chaumière " Lans en vercors, France 2014 Office de tourisme, Autrans, France
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2023 Monaco Act III by Artcollect - Monaco - France (Coming soon) 2023 Nice art expo - Nice - France (Coming soon)
2023 Artshow Paris XV - Paris - France
2022 Magswiss - Palais des congrès - Montreux - Switzerland
2022 Expostion Galerie Mona Lisa - Paris - France 2022 Art3f, Marseille, France
2022 Artoulous' Expo, Toulouse, France
2022 Artououse, Coeur de ville, Toulouse, France - Audience award 2022 Nice Art Expo, Nice, France
2022 Luxembourg art fair, Luxexpo The Box, Luxembourg
2022 Van Gogh Art Gallery exhibition, Madrid, Spain
2022 Avant-garde exhibition - virtual artists - Virtual exhibition 2022 "senso unico" exhibition, CAEL gallery, Milan, Italy 2021 Salon des artistes réunis, Villeurbanne, France
2021 Libre est l'art exhibition, Paris, France
2021 Art3f exhibition, Marseille, France
2020 Les Jeudis de Sauve, Sauve
2019 Le kilowatt, Paris, France
2019 Festival du chamanisme, Saint-Julien-de-la-Nef, France 2017 Festival Att man, Arugam bay, Sri lanka
2017 Elementra Festival, Saint-Imier, Switzerland
2015 Salon des arts de Montesson, France
2013 Salon des arts du Vesinet-le-Pecq, France
2013 Salon des arts de Montesson, France, PRIX DE LA VILLE
PRESS RELEASES
2023 International Contemporary Artists | 2023 | Limited Edition Vol V France 2022 Magazine CHIC n°2 - special Monaco
2022 Magazine Maison Et Jardin N°67 France
2022 Art And Design - Magazine N°31 France
2022 Art4Any France
2022 Top Gir Magazine Bordeaux, France
2016 Article Le Dauphiné Villards de lans, France
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2023 Leonardo da Vinci Prize
2023 3Ème Prix De La Technique - Salon Art Show Paris, France 2022 Prix du public - Artoulouse cœur de ville.
2017 Certificate Of Artistic Merit Luxembourg Art Prize
2013 Salon Des Arts, Prix De La Ville Montesson, France