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Marie, watercolourist 🇫🇷

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Marie's Happy LIFE

Marie is an artist from Paris.arisienne, settled in Provence. She has a nice background with the Beaux Arts and the Ecole du Louvre.
She worked for many years in advertising, cinema and for fashion magazines. One day, she stopped everything to take up her brushes, oil on wood and devote herself to interior scenes, her passion. She organised her first exhibitions in San Francisco, a city that inspires her and smells of sun and decoration.

Marie's Happy STYLE

Marie developed her taste for watercolour painting through her interest in interior scenes. What attracts her and fascinates her are the details around the portraits of houses, interior scenes and portraits of objects.
Her love for colours and decoration can be felt in her strokes.

Why we love Mary

Marie's watercolours create warm and realistic interior scenes.
She likes to play with and highlight certain decorative details, a silhouette in the distance and often the presence of a pet that animates her interior portraits and plays the role of the owner of the place.

We love the aestheticism that emerges from his compositions, an original and moving way to immortalise a place dear to his heart.

Marie's Happy Funky PORTRAIT

♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
Yes, Manet's fife player.

♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to him?
Amadeo Modigliani! and I would say to him, "please, can you draw me a portrait?"

♥ What is your favourite colour?
Black, because it makes all the other colours pop.

interior watercolour
remembering your home

♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why?
The Jacquemart-André museum for its incredible collection and its Italian paintings.

♥ Which work of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
Without hesitation, Balthus.

♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
In Paris, I love the Rodin Museum, the Gardens of the Palais Royal and the Jacquemard-André Museum.

a watercolour of our beautiful places to live

♥ What book keeps you up all night?
The next one I hope!

♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
Houses that have a soul.

♥ What's the funkiest thing you've done in your life?
My life maybe...!

♥ What is your definition of happiness?
Marvelling at lots of little things in everyday life.

a watercolour of our beautiful places to live

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    Artist Carole, cartoonist of the Happy Funky Family

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    Carole's Happy VIE

    Born in the heart of the Vosges forest, I grew up with a pencil and a brush in my hand and turned to studying art at high school. After a detour by the profession of nurse, I decided to trade pricking and care for a palette and canvases! I draw my inspiration from my (large) family life and my travels (near and far). For a year now, I've been working on a shelf but I haven't abandoned "traditional" tools. What I like the most: to give a smile to people who discover my work, to offer them a small "madeleine de Proust", a return to childhood in a few strokes of the pen!

    Carole's Happy STYLE

    My style is figurative with a touch of retro! I work with digital tools but still like the contact with the material.
    My creations are "childhood moments" or "slices of family" that I draw and paint on a tablet with my pen and then print them.

    Why we LOVE Carole

    Carole touched us with her portraits of children. She reminds us of the illustrations in the books that our parents used to read to us before we went to sleep.

    But don't get me wrong, she draws both wacky families and crowned heads. Her vintage style plunges us with delight into a sweet nostalgia!

    Carole's Happy Funky PORTRAIT

    ♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
    When my middle school art teacher drew a perfect circle freehand on the blackboard! Otherwise, I devoured Martine's books when I was a little girl.

    ♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to him?
    An aspiring artist to tell him never to give up on his dreams...

    What is your favourite colour? What does it inspire?
    Blue. It inspires me to travel and escape.

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    ♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why?
    Louisiana in Denmark for its openness to nature, its Giacometti statues and memories...

    ♥ Which piece of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
    Boy, a monumental statue by artist Ron Mueck...I would also have to change I would also have to change my house to accommodate it!

    ♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
    Aarhus in Denmark, a favourite city for the whole family! The ARoS museum and its Rainbow Panorama, Dokk1 and its library which gives all its meaning to Hygge, its alleys, Gamle By which takes us back in time...

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    ♥ What book keeps you up all night?
    A Henning Mankell thriller... " The Lone Warrior" for example.

    ♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
    My five children!

    ♥ What's the funkiest thing you've done in your life?
    A seven-man tour of Europe in a motorhome, a real life experience! I would like to point out that to say that we came back with 7 people!

    ♥ What is your definition of happiness?
    Here and now!

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