Carine Bouvard

Carine Bouvard, Besanςon (France) 1973.

Her beautiful, softly colored portraits are elegant and endearing, even if they sometimes have a sad look. And although her style varies, the women have in common that they all seem to be engrossed in their own beautiful thoughts.

'Her women' move between realism and fantasy, strength and vulnerability, awkwardness and elegance. They are her guiding principle and everything around them remains something to discover.

Carine has been painting for ten years and has been working as a full-time artist since 2008.

In her paintings she uses various techniques, such as: oil paint, acrylic, ink, stencil art, scratches and collages with layers of filler. She loves the material and all those different textures, colors with structures, enrich and approximately reveal the history of her as a person.

Carine's artistic career is not easy to define. Her need to create is stimulated by her search for: the discovery, the wonder and the doubts. It is very essential for her that she shows the feminine, not consciously chosen but forced upon her as something self-evident.