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.
Born in 1981, in La Seyne-sur-Mer, to a navigator father and a designer mother, Katell Le Jeune grew up on the beaches of Les Sables d'Olonne. After studying applied arts in Nantes and graduating from the merchant navy in her pocket, she set sail for the Antilles to live her sunny dreams, following in the footsteps of Sophie Ladame, Titouan Lamazou and other traveling artists.
His painting was born there. Stimulated by the graphic and colorful strength of this tropical nature. His work is developed in a maritime universe and is enriched by other explorations.
Poetic testimonies, tributes to nature, Katell navigates freely between figuration and abstraction, her expression clarifying her own language over the series. She mainly paints with a knife on canvas, with acrylic. Color is clearly the main game in his work.
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