Supporting, Empowering & Celebrating Female Artists

YBAH

Thirst for discovery and a hunger for cultural experiences are the hallmarks of YBAH’s work. Passionate about traveling, she fell under the spell of the picturesque streets of Prague in 1994. She then realized her first painting.

But it is in Rome, in front of Michelangelo’s Piéta that her desire to sculpt was born. Pursed lips, a distant gaze and weathered hands…physical nuances are taken to the forefront in her work.

Her sculptures praise and embrace “defects” as she magnificently renders a human body utterly sublime. Beauty, authenticity and sensuality nourish her artistic expression.

Emmanuelle Lemetais

After 10 years in interior design, architecture and furniture design, Emmanuelle Lemetais chose to make her hobby, painting, her new profession.

Her work has found a unique balance between playful and mature through the use of bright, flashy colors juxtaposed with architectural and natural subject matter. Her enchanting creations adeptly walk the line between figurative and abstract.

Natch

Natch’s oeuvre glimmers and boasts multiple influences. Nude drawing, sculpture, Street Art, graphic design and Indonesian art shape and fascinate this young artist from the South-West of France.

An ode to joy, femininity and perhaps Matisse, her scenes celebrate life itself.
She imagines faces or compositions made of simplified silhouettes, capable of telling stories.

Most often using acrylic paint on canvases or even walls, Natch approaches existentialist themes by questioning our relationship to ourselves, to others, to money and to nature.

Aline Wiest

With her fresh botanical compositions, Aline Wiest offers a breath of fresh, revitalizing air. Her works are luminous, sublimating nature before, during and after the rain.

Born in Lorraine, she now lives and works in Paris. Her liberated gesture allows her to work with the unexpected, the impromptu.

Sometimes on canvas, sometimes on cardboard, Aline Wiest’s works are a beautiful pictorial poetry.

Carole Charbonnier

Floral, feminine and fleeting, Carole Charbonnier’s work is set in the abyss of still lifes. She glorifies these little lives that we rarely notice, and yet reflect a part of our humanity.

Her work exposes the fragility of all lives while celebrating their transient nature.

“To bring back to the fore the living, the one that exists only through its extinction. Biodiversity is collapsing, to become aware that in the disappearance of a passerine, of an insect it is a part of ourselves that disappears.“

Nathalie Leverger

Nathalie Leverger paints, cuts, molds, glues and knits. Such is part of the process she uses to recreate and curate the landscape around her.

Very attached to her artistic freedom, she lets herself be carried away by an instinctive materialistic approach.

Very often, an object, smell or color will give her the artistic direction to follow. Leaving room for “accidents“, she unashamedly assumes her penchant for textile patterns and volumes that enhance her compositions.

Marie-Thérèse Tsalapatanis

Around the age of 10, Marie-Thérèse Tsalapatanis attended the Louvre’s Decorative Arts classes and later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris where she developed a real interest in studying live models.

With an eye for the human figure and all its complexity, Marie-Thérèse Tsalapatanis has been sculpting bronze for many years. Her works, which can be found both in public and private collections, have been rewarded with some fifty prizes and distinctions.

Working with the raw material, the artist gives the beautiful part to the body, often feminine, and depicts it in all stages of life.

Christiane Rancelot

After working in Lille from 1998 to 2009, Christiane Rancelot now works on large format paintings near Bordeaux. Her works are regularly exhibited all over Europe and in North America.

Her depictions are familiar and touching, although the subjects’ true identities will remain forever unknown.

A mother holding her child in her arms, a face partially covered with flowers, a body delicately floating in a swimming pool: such are the scenes of everyday life that animate her work.