Artists

Sandrine Jarrosson

Painter

Born in 1960 and having grown up in Ville d’Avray, a favorite place for many artists, I was interested in drawing at a very young age. My meeting with the Czech painter Jaro Hilbert 48 years ago certainly deter- mined my vocation as a painter. I studied drawing at the Académie Charpentier in Paris and consolidated my professional experience with- in an advertising agency (fashion brochures, invitation cards)

It is in the context of an emotional break that my work begins: oil painting, then first exhibition, on the theme of Jars, the round, the feminine, the inner child.

2001

Second rupture, cervical rupture, in a very serious car accident. Loss of bearings... The need to give new meaning to my life becomes obvious. I almost lost my life and “my guardian angel caught me by the hair” my grandmother told me. Hence the decision to live intensely and finally dare to be myself.
Through painting, the way naturally imposes itself on me.

These breaking points opened up a new path for me. Painting becomes vital!

2005

Step by step I take strong decisions, and make choices: I realize that painting becomes my universe and that I must devote myself only to it.
I leave the Paris region and come to settle in Hossegor in the Landes.
Painting has become a necessity for me, a mode of expression essential to my balance.

2010

Seduced by the Basque Country, its light, its strength, its energy, I settled there and found a workshop that met my expectations.

Today

My work is oriented towards the abstract, because it gives me more freedom to translate what I feel; the materials, the colors, the formats, evoke the movement and a certain emotion that I wish to share.
Light remains for me the key element of every work I undertake.

Each new canvas is a new beginning and I let myself be guided by my intuitions of the moment. A training in Qi Gong, in Tuinas massage, as well as the practice of Tao transformed my ap- proach to painting and gave me a new energy that I use in my creation.
Being present and centered is essential to my work because it is a vector of success in my artistic approach.

Veronika Weberova

Painter

She studied Didactics of Art Education of Comenius University in Bratislava (SK), where she
received her PaedDr. and PhD. During her studies she focused on painting techniques and
their use in school.
She works with the author's modified ebru technique, painting on the water surface. She applies layers of lightly glazed layers with expressive gestures to the surface of the water where she then rubs the canvases. She often combines abstract painting with pen drawing, which is created by layering lines.
She has had 25 solo exhibitions, mostly in Slovakia, and more than 40 group
exhibitions worldwide. She has exhibited in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria,
Serbia, South Korea, France, Netherlands, the Canary Islands, The Great Britain, Republic of
Moldova (participation in the International Biennial of Painting in Chisinau 2023) and
Ukraine.
In 2023 she received the 1° International Prize Donetello in Florence (IT) and Pegasus Art Prize in Venezia (IT). In 2019 she was awarded the Premio Speciale Della Critica at the XXI Premio Internationale Arte San Crispino (IT). In 2005, 2nd place in the national round of the Tahitian Pearl Trophy international jewellery competition.
She is a part of the strongest artistic association of professional artists in Slovakia where she became the youngest member. She also regularly participates in international painting symposia.
She lives and works in Bratislava (Slovakia), where she is also an art teacher.

Elsa Papagiannopoulou

Painter

She was born, lives and creates in Thessaloniki, Greece. Until 2010 she was working at Alpha Bank, in International Trade Department. During her working career she attended many seminars and workshops in painting, ceramics, stained glass, photography, etc. Among them, sculpture for one academic year with the Greek sculptor Thanos Karonis, and printmaking for another year with the Greek engraver Giorgos Pallis. After resigning from the bank, she started academic studies for the first time.
In 2018 she received a bachelor degree from the Department of European Civilization and in 2020 a master degree in Public History from the Faculty of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University, Patras. In 2019 she entered the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and currently she attends the 5th Painting Workshop of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts, under the direction of the visual artist Giorgos Divaris (until 2020) and the painter Lambros Psyrrakis (2020- ), along with the guidance of the professors/visual artists Maria Vozali, Aliki Martzopoulou and Christos Venetis.
She is a person with imagination and concerns that cannot be limited to just one type of art, and she likes to engage in all kinds of visual expressions.
Currently she combines three different directions. Photography, digital editing/creation, and painting. The tools available to a visual artist today are many. The creation of a work has gone beyond simply observing and transferring to the canvas a composition or a live model or even a subject from a photograph. Elsa uses digital photo editing programs to get to the result she wants instead of testing on the canvas directly. So, by thoroughly exploring her subject she arrives at the composition she likes and then transfer it to the canvas or print on fabric or other materials. She is to get away from figurative realist painting and move into abstract art or a combination of both. She likes the details, so she tries to break up her subject, zoom in as seeing it through a microscope, discovering a different perspective each time. She tries from one photo to make a group of works until she exhausts the subject and move on to the next one.