Isabelle was born in Nancy, France in 1962. She studied painting at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg and then came to London to study at Chelsea School of Art.
Isabelle lives and paints in Paris, in a former diamond-cutter’s workshop built from remnants of the Eiffel Tower, surrounded by stuffed spiders and rickety Napoleonic furniture. Antiques, curiosity shops, social life and late 19th century literature provide the inspiration for her work. Like the characters in a Scott Fitzgerald novel the languid inhabitants of her paintings subtly convey the shadow side of an idle existence.
Isabelle has undertaken many commissioned paintings for private individuals and companies, and recently undertook a commission for a dining room in Paris and a villa on the French Riviera. She shows regularly in Paris, Tokyo, Beirut and London. Isabelle exhibits exclusively with Portal Painters in London and participates in all the major art fairs.
Biography
One Person Exhibitions:
2010 La Matrice, Paris2008 Galerie Huit, Arles2006 Galerie Marie-Claude Goinard, Paris
Portal Gallery, London2004 Galerie Marie-Claude Goinard, La Baule2002 Galerie Fadi Mogabgab, Beyrouth
Portal Gallery, LondonGalerie Frédéric De Luca, Paris
2000 Galerie Fadi Mogabgab, BeyrouthPortal Gallery, London
1999 Galerie Fadi Mogabgab, Beyrouth1998 Portal Gallery, London1997 Galerie Christine Le Guen, Tokyo1996 Galerie Martine Moisan, Paris1993 Galerie Elizabeth Magnard, Paris
Galerie Esclarmonde, La Baule1991 Galerie Elizabeth Magnard, Paris
Group Exhibitions
2007 AAF New York2006 Art Shangaï2004 Tanglewood Festival, Boston1999 Artuel, Beyrouth1998 Ward-Nasse Gallery,New-York
Press
The Times, Country Life, Sunday Telegraph, House & Garden, Evening Standard, Vogue Décoration, Space (Japon), Femme (Liban), L'Orient-Le jour, First Look, Maison Française...
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