Art invites itself in your daily life

Born in 1988 in a family of (hypersensitive) artistes, Cécile is basically a photographer who developed a love for atypical supports, and enjoys sharing with other what she learns from her insatiable curiosity. Ever inspired, she aspires to rich turns of phrases, anecdotes, rhymes and mind games. Het motto : Humour and beauty will save the world She regularly writes texts for projects or artistsin order to efficiently synthetise informations. In a more poetical way, word can heal the world. They must sing and vibrate in us to enlight new worlds out of our imagination.

Independant typographer and graphist, Viktor Vukasinovic is infatuated for the Letter and its applications. From the drawing of typographic characters, to unique lettering, including the creation of logotypes, Viktor managed to captivate and to transform his taste for the alphabet into a profession. He also nurtures, in his workshop of Porte Latine, a globale practice of the creation of visual identities, websites…

Born in Normandy a few years ago, Soizic was led to live here and there until she finally settled in Picardy. She has fallen in love with illustration thanks to a life ever surrounded by images, and ended up taking her own pencils to draw portraits of personalities that matter to her. She enjoys breaking the classic side of her strokes by bringing pop elements in the image, by using quirky patterns and vivid colours.

Eric Castille was born in nthe last centuries, just 4 years before the first step of a man on the moon. His grandparents had bought their first television set on this occasion. Growing up, he enjoyed spending his summer evenings looking at the sky for hours. But, like those who were qualified as the first men of science from the Renaissance, he was consumed by curiosity. Far from comparing himself to these out-of-the box thinkers, he considers himself simply as an autodidact Jack-of-all-trades. He is fond of geology, zoology and paleontology, and has been dreaming from childhood, just like everybody, to meet the giant dinosaurs who reigned upon earth long before mankind was even a project in the vast schemes of the Universe. History is he ultimate area of interest. Maybe he wanted to bring some order in this scattered mass of knowledge with the purpose of answering this existential question : who are we ?

Lisa Balavoine was born in 1974 in Amiens. She is teacher-librarian and writer. After making thrre wonderful children, Lisa Balavoine started to write every day a few notes and short stories and, in 2018, it all became novel, Eparse (JC Lattès), the portrait of a woman composed of fragments and chosen moments. She then wrote a novel for teenagers, Un garçon c’est presque rien (Rageot, 2020), whch questions the codes of masculinity and modern youth. She also published short stories in the literary magazine Décapage, and musical reviews for the website Section26 or the project Ecoutons nos pochettes, because, beside loving littérature, Lisa Balavoine is also a huge indie pop fan.

Endowed with a childhood full of visual and sonic works, and with a highly diversified student education, Olivia blossoms in the fields of art as much as teaching. She enjoys exploring various mediums, from pastels to ceramic, including pencils. Nothing makes her happy more than playing with colors. She especially appreciate artistical collaborations with others : musicians, poets, illustrators…as long as the will to create is present !

Born in 1990 in Amiens, Pauline makes ink drawings on paper showing lost architectures in a luxurious flora. She studied graphism at Auguste Renoir (Paris) and then at ESAD (Reims). Her drawings are widely inspired from movies et photographs, and are conceived as freeze frames. The architectures and insides include objects or plants that takes us sometimes to Italy, some other times to Japan, or at times to California. What materialize in these drawings are feelings, desires, memories to which are related colors, landscapes, places, objects and characters.

Laurent Van Elslande has always lived in Amiens and has been a philosophy teacher at the Lycée d'Abbeville (Somme) for a few decades, and more occasionally at the University of Picardie. His passions are philosophy and diving, teaching and travelling, music and people, politics and beauty, science and rum, cinema and friendship, culture and nature. In addition to miles of courses, he has written a few articles on subjects as homogeneous as secularism, earthquakes, bioethics or Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine.

For over thirty years, Vincent Jeannerot's original botanical watercolors have conveyed the emotion he feels when he paints nature in its smallest details. Vincent paints the pure and natural beauty of life, with its balanced tones and shades, awakening our own emotions. He participates in national and international exhibitions and also teaches in his own gallery, located in Lyon (France), his hometown. He is invited to teach his botanical art internationally in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, Japan, South Korea and the United States. Born on February 12, 1961 in Lyon, France.