Eric Vanel's figurative sculptures skilfully combine reality and imagination. They are mainly made of bronze and resin. A former automotive engineer, he has acquired a remarkable technical mastery of these materials. Trained by renowned sculptors such as Grzegorz Gwiazda, Robert Bodem, Robert Bodem, Brian Booth Craig, Eudald de Juana and Philippe Seené.
Eric Vanel seeks to move the soul with his expressive sculptures. His captivating works tell stories that transport the viewer between reality and fantasy. Her favorite themes are the strength and intensity of the feminine as well as the personification of wild nature.
Inspired by ancient myths and modern literature, each sculpture is modelled in clay with a semi-flexible frame, giving formal freedom. The pose, the look and the light give each character a life and a story. The sculptures are then molded in bronze, plaster or resin, with patinas that enrich the message of the work.
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.
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