Catherine Hélie - Vanité 2

Vanity made on a canvas board with embroidery, braids, antique buttons, and pearls.
Unique piece, signed on the back.



She discovers painting under the auspices of Kandinsky (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979).
I fled an uneducated family environment and school. I settled in the South and worked small jobs.
Back in the Parisian region, she is undergoing photography training, which leads her to join the news agency Opale, where her collection of photographs of writers is kept.

She continued this work for a fairly large number of publishing houses (Fayard, etc.), until she was offered in 2004 to take on the full-time, then part-time, position of photographer for the authors of Gallimard editions (where she also photographed works by painters for catalogs – Cocteau, Dali, Picasso, Pincemin, Pignon-Ernest, etc.), a role she left in 2016, leaving Paris at the same time to settle on the Normandy coast (Seine Maritime) and devote herself solely to painting (and its derivatives).
This photographer's work will permanently interrupt their personal creative activity.

In 2001, she met Jacques Clerc (editor and artist) and Henri Maccheroni (painter and photographer), thanks to whom she exhibited at the Mentoux-Gignac gallery in Paris, 3rd arrondissement, with them once together and alone a second time, before the gallery's closure.
She subsequently exhibited in several places, Paris, Nice, Rouen at the Galerie Duchoze, and this continued until the discovery of the possibilities offered by online galleries (Artmajeur).

My preferred modern artists are numerous: Dado, Saura, Staël, Tapiès, Bourgeois, Pollock, Grau-Garriga, Joan Mitchell, Annette Messager, Rebeyrolle, etc.

His work as a painter resulted in a catalog of the Duchoze gallery, published by 'Meetings: Places, Artists, Rouen Metropolitan Area.'

Photographic work on Parisian cemeteries has led to several publications and studies; in the mainstream press (Télérama, etc.) as well as in specialized journals (Ligeia, special issue 'Photography as a Vector,' analyzed by philosopher Jean-Louis Déotte, etc.).

In 2022, she is undertaking training in classic needle embroidery. She creates 'textile works' as well as weavings using recycled and thrifted materials. She also creates art assemblages, featuring recovered objects, reverence for plants, bones, and more.

She now devotes herself entirely to her work.