Trained as a decorative painter, specialising in particular in the art of trompe-l'œil, Patrick Héline has always pursued a personal artistic approach rooted in a realistic aesthetic.
His early works depicted tropical landscapes, before he explored the marine world through a macroscopic approach. About twenty years ago, he turned his attention to ‘intimate’ interior scenes, in the tradition of the painter Gustave Caillebotte.
Inspired by the Italian masters, whom he admires for their mastery of light and shadow through the use of glazing, he revisits these classical techniques with contemporary tools, notably the airbrush. His work thus strikes a subtle balance between tradition and modernity. His canvases, playing on the contrasts of shadows and reflections, are distinguished by a cool palette enhanced by warm touches, and by the choice of contemporary subjects that give his work a resolutely modern look.
In 2022, at the age of 70, marked like many by the COVID period, the artist felt the need to renew and broaden his creative field. He returned to watercolour, which he had long used in his travel journals, and now reproduces in acrylic resin on aluminium. Seduced by the possibilities offered by this material, he also adopted it for sculpture, taking advantage of its plastic qualities that do not require firing.
True to his realistic approach, he has dedicated this new series of sculptures to the female body, a recurring theme in his work. A collection ‘all in transparency’, linked to his Plongeuses series, is currently on exclusive display at the ADOR gallery.
From her studio in Brittany, Barbara Daeffler creates unique works that explore the ancestral links between humans and animals. Inspired since childhood by the raw beauty of the wild world, she uses sculpture to question a bygone era when humans lived in harmony with animals.
Her career closely combines art and archaeology: she studied art history, ethnology and archaeology, enriched by years of practice in ceramics and teaching the arts of fire. It is in clay, a primitive and symbolic material, that she draws the essence of her artistic language.
Her animal sculptures, made of stoneware and porcelain, bear the traces of an imaginary past. Fragmented, marked by erosion or colourful tattoos, they evoke a poetic and vibrant paleontology. Through fire, textures, oxides and enamels, the artist gives her creatures a mysterious and timeless presence.
Her ‘Beasts’, sometimes monumental, hybridise worlds, elevating the animal to totem status and the material to memory. The earth becomes skin, stretched to the point of cracking, in a play of contrasts between roughness and finesse, archaism and grace.
A member of Ateliers d'Art de France since 2023, Barbara Daeffler has exhibited regularly in galleries, salons and exhibitions since setting up her studio in 2018.
L’art n’est pas un objet comme les autres. Il ne sert pas à quelque chose de précis, ne répond pas à un besoin immédiat. Il existe pour être regardé, ressenti, vécu. Alors, peut-on vraiment offrir une œuvre d’art ?
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