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Montjoie Art
FOR THE EYES AND THE MIND
FOR THE EYES AND THE MIND
FOR THE EYES AND THE MIND
FOR THE EYES AND THE MIND
FOR THE EYES AND THE MIND
Art in the heart of Montjoie
The Domaine de Montjoie exhibits nearly 200 contemporary works of art on a permanent basis (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) highlighting many regional and national artists. The works adorn the buildings, the rooms and the park, in order to arouse the curiosity of the traveller.
Do you want to buy a work?
Most of the exhibited works are available for sale at the workshop price (without margin). We can put you in touch with the artists, the purchase of the works of art is then made directly with the artists. A certificate of authenticity of the work will be delivered to you by the artist himself at the conclusion of the sale.
”Putting down their bag filled with the material concerns of everyday life, each visitor to Montjoie benefits from the open-mindedness offered by the work of our former architects, builders and landscape gardeners and can then open their minds to the cultures of the world.
Hubert FaureFounding President of Domaine de Montjoie
The exhibited artists at Montjoie
Most of the exhibited works come from the FACTO Collective, comprising some twenty visual artists from Toulouse, who have decided to come together and pool their ideas and know-how. Their objectives: to be fully in line with the current artistic field, and to establish a bridge between so-called Neoclassical Art and so-called Contemporary Art. Other independent artists have gradually joined the Domaine de Montjoie gallery.
THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
Trained in artistic ironwork as well as artistic and cultural professions, Farid Achezegag naturally turned to sculpture. Nourished by the universe of American comics, mythologies, inspired by César and Palolo Valdès, he chose steel as his favorite material. Pebbles gleaned from the seaside and rivers were quickly added to the latter. His characters made up of multiple pieces are similar to three-dimensional puzzles. Today, he divides his time between his sculptures and the construction of sets for the Capitole theater in Toulouse.
Françoise ANGIBAUD devotes herself to painting after a career in haute couture which has become a second passion for her. Self-taught, she attended workshops in Toulouse: Kraft, Les Artistes Occitans, Atelier M. Coste where she learned figurative art. From her job she keeps the assurance of the gesture, the sense of shapes and volumes. She paints as she speaks, with joy, warmth and spontaneity. Through his paintings, we find his passion, his creative energy and his talent as a colorist.
This triptych of cotton organdy panels was made using the Japanese hand-painted techniques of katazome, tsutsugaki and sugaki. These freehand and resist dyeing techniques involve, among other things, the use of stencils and a cornet to apply a rice paste to the textile before painting in order to trace part of the patterns. "La Fleurée" designates the state in which the indigo pigment of the pastel forms on the surface of the dye tank after stirring.
One fine morning in March 2019, Jean-Louis Capou wakes up wanting to paint. Since self-taught, his "vibratory painting" is born with a palette made up of primary colors. His paintings are executed in acrylic with a knife and / or spatula mostly in the fresh, allowing the viewer to be fully guided in spontaneity by gesture in space and time. Traces, shadows, imprints and juxtaposition of several spaces that fit together and thus give you access to other dimensions. His work is open to any interpretation, to any sensation. And you... What do you see?
Michel Gallot is part of the contemporary abstract art movement. His style is
pure and sharp, in the constant search for the perfect line. Most of the time he improvises and favors spontaneity. He paints randomly and more or less figurative elements appear. The encrustation of arabesques made with a knife airs his canvas, gives it a perspective and a depth that break and disturb the logic of the gaze. Silhouettes take shape, urban landscapes, suspended in time, appear in compositions that are alternately abstract, figurative, or aerial. His artistic sense, in the wake of abstract art, becomes a universal language.
pure and sharp, in the constant search for the perfect line. Most of the time he improvises and favors spontaneity. He paints randomly and more or less figurative elements appear. The encrustation of arabesques made with a knife airs his canvas, gives it a perspective and a depth that break and disturb the logic of the gaze. Silhouettes take shape, urban landscapes, suspended in time, appear in compositions that are alternately abstract, figurative, or aerial. His artistic sense, in the wake of abstract art, becomes a universal language.
Jean-Pierre Fontes gives free rein to his feelings and his thoughts to create unique works that reflect his state of mind at the time. It is the emotions and not the reflection that inhabit his paintings.
Painter, drawing teacher, member of the jury at the Salon des Arts de Balma and the association "Le Lien". After 5 years of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse, she obtained the Grand Prix and a scholarship. Two years in Ivory Coast, in the bush, and a first exhibition splashed with light. Paintings, but especially watercolours. Other exhibitions: Abidjan, London, Toulouse, Balma.
Since 1997: opening of her "Drawing Workshop", Isabelle gives lessons for adults and children; in the variety of themes, styles and inspirations.
Since 1997: opening of her "Drawing Workshop", Isabelle gives lessons for adults and children; in the variety of themes, styles and inspirations.
Graduated of the Ecole Boulle, Patricia Louchard worked in several Parisian architecture agencies before founding Imagina design in Toulouse in 1993. In 2013, she left for Montreal for a few months to work with the Ruscio studio agency. Enhance spaces, create plays of light, achieve a subtle marriage of colors and materials, here is the leitmotif that animates his daily life. She chose this job to give emotion and make people's eyes sparkle. Its objective: Find the “idea” that will make your space a unique place and thus reveal its added value.
Based in Lanta, in the suburbs of Toulouse, Steliana MOCANU is a discreet artist of great humanity. His painting bears witness to this, not being able to help but noticeably include the presence of man in his abstract work. Joyful Shadows, which his colorful palette of his paintings, combined with a solid sense of construction and light, affirm as high quality work. Originally from Romania, she presents a universal, almost magical lyrical work, bringing the viewer to reflection before this metaphorical world... In short, an art of living like a sweetness.
Defining herself as a "figurative expressionist painter", Diane Rosaz places women, her body and her spirituality at the heart of her compositions and explores her subject in its many facets, to highlight faces, hands and feet. She exhibits her painting in many countries, Venezuela, Nigeria, South Africa, Norway, United States, France.
He started photography in 2007 and, very quickly, his inspiration turned towards enigmatic atmospheres. In 2009, the discovery of exploration photography (exploring places built and abandoned by man) was a revelation. He has always been attracted by the notions of traces, of memory, and it is by pushing the doors of certain abandoned buildings that he discovered singular atmospheres, charged with emotions and poetry. The photo then takes on its full meaning. It is a memory and a tribute, the transcription of the unique story that each place whispers to its gaze...
A poetic abstraction...
For O.J. Vincent, it is a question of bringing out of the canvas the poetic, sensory or spiritual dimension of everything that connects us to ourselves and to what surrounds us. Prioritize the vivid expression of emotions. And give all its place to the imagination. Giving substance to our inner voices and revealing their musicality, catching dreams in full flight and trying to capture their impalpable reality, undertaking the crossing of appearances and questioning, down to the tiniest... For him, each work is an Elsewhere embodied.
For O.J. Vincent, it is a question of bringing out of the canvas the poetic, sensory or spiritual dimension of everything that connects us to ourselves and to what surrounds us. Prioritize the vivid expression of emotions. And give all its place to the imagination. Giving substance to our inner voices and revealing their musicality, catching dreams in full flight and trying to capture their impalpable reality, undertaking the crossing of appearances and questioning, down to the tiniest... For him, each work is an Elsewhere embodied.
Her pictorial universe is dark and rough, disturbing, brutal, frontal, highlighted by a graphic writing made of scrapings, scratches or incisions with a cutter. The pastels are pressed and crushed, symbolizing heaviness, hard-to-remove oil stains. His characters are ghostly and strike the eye with their insistence. They question. Painting is for her another way of saying things, a freedom of being. Where words fail, painting expresses itself. Her pictorial approach is part of an emotional contemporaneity.
A woman from the south, Géraldine AURET lives in Montpellier. After a rich and dense professional career, she now devotes herself to her artistic creation with her “Collections G.”. The G.'s represent intense femininity and sensuality. The pure and strong colors exalt the motif and give it a posture, a meaning, a real sensuality. "My painting is the translation of my spirituality, my emotions and my loud and strong love of life."
Like Picasso or Dubuffet, Gérard BOGO renews reality in its permanent nature. His gaze on women is closely linked to a fractured, recomposed, broken drawing while retaining a major aesthetic line. Figurants of abstraction, profiles, reflections or shadows, women with haughty looks, riders of time, are the result of a loving work of drawing and its perspectives.
However, Gérard BOGO does not forget the Flamboyant. Let's color the life of our sculptures! An escape of colors in the phenomenology of the imagination.
However, Gérard BOGO does not forget the Flamboyant. Let's color the life of our sculptures! An escape of colors in the phenomenology of the imagination.
With her H2O series Isabelle Chapelain tackles the question of transmission, a theme that is very dear to her. Family transmission of course, but also transmission in the broader sense: what have we received, what have we sown, what will we leave to future generations? The circle is the symbol of this reflection. It is the link in the chain, the link between the past and the future, the eternal restart.
Denis Grué, Franco-American artist, was born in 1962. He studied art in a private association of regional artists and industrial design. Graduated from the Saint Gobain-Pont school in Mousson then Sound Engineer - Light Manager. After a few years in a design office and in performing arts, Denis returned to his first loves of drawing and painting. The concept of his paintings is determined by vibrant and primary colors, with curves, lines but also abstract shapes that can resemble abstract and geometric figuration.
From the age of 12, Jack FOURNIER draws and plays with a brush. Around the age of 15, he met a Russian painter Rostislav Loukine who became his master and who advised him to study at the School of Fine Arts in Reims. The bright colors of his palette express his character well. Currently retired, Jack FOURNIER continues his path in Art. He is responsible for two associations: one Granges des Arts in Colombey les Deux Eglises and the other Tourelles des Arts in old Chaumont.
Kellestom, painter, graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris: the discovery and observation of cities and people around the world constitute a constant source of inspiration. For her, Art is a vector to another dimension, a way to bring out the underlying reality, dormant behind appearances. She likes large formats and collages of matter and she is passionate about light and movement. What fascinates her the most is the energy emanating from the human presence. It is in a process of sharing and exchange with the public.
Laurent LAFONTAS artistic research has led him to experiment in various fields and with different materials: drawing, modelling, sculpture, video and animated film. As part of an environmental approach, he assembles different metals together and favors the use of recycled materials which are most often the starting point for his creations. Currently, he makes monumental works, the size of which is constantly increasing.
What is striking at first glance in the work of François Malbreil is the abundant diversity of subjects and his taste for the figurative combined with a major interest in light.
Whether landscapes with or without human figures, nocturnal scenes, mechanical machines, tropical or southern islands, animals, portraits, nudes... the painter's ambition is to draw up an inventory of the situation of the contemporary world and one's own interior landscape.
He draws his inspiration from numerous overseas stays and trips (Antilles, Mascarenes, Madagascar, southern and Antarctic islands, China, Africa, etc.)
Whether landscapes with or without human figures, nocturnal scenes, mechanical machines, tropical or southern islands, animals, portraits, nudes... the painter's ambition is to draw up an inventory of the situation of the contemporary world and one's own interior landscape.
He draws his inspiration from numerous overseas stays and trips (Antilles, Mascarenes, Madagascar, southern and Antarctic islands, China, Africa, etc.)
NABARUS art is protean. Several ways come together, in the form of series which are all facets of a blossoming talent. The houses, the engravings, the paintings, the monotypes, are created with the concern, for each of them, of exploring in depth a technique until finding all the meanings it can produce. What is striking about the artist is that his passion is embodied both in the themes and in the techniques, each feeding on the other to produce the work.
Whether it represents Horse Power, Goûter à la liberté or the Habit does not make the monk, the work of the painter Rolf Saint-Agnès clearly announces the colors: those of pop art and its holy trinity Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring. For a decade, he made the Big Apple his adopted city and pop art his artistic religion. Over the years and his travels around the world, the artist's brush has become unique. If pop art still permeates his art, it does not alienate a very assertive personality. One could compare his work to the ship of the Argonauts. Constantly refitted, the ship no longer retained a single original plank but remained the same as itself.
The abstract paintings of Benoît THIEL reveal an imagination and a singular expression. He diverts different tools from their primary destination to appropriate them and thus bring out, through scratching techniques, superposition of materials and colors, a certain transparency and lightness of the work. He leaves each visitor free in his feelings, his imagination in the face of graphics and colors.
Through his photos or his work as a visual artist, the artist penetrates the labyrinth of beings in search of the other Me, and this, in an omnipresent aesthetic.
"All my life I have been torn, not to say torn, between painting and music. I studied the violin for 10 years, before tackling the double bass. My musical record does not stop there, parallel during my studies at the Beaux-Arts, I was part of several orchestras that scoured the bars and nightclubs of the pink city". My double life continued happily since at the same time, I obtained my diploma as a drawing teacher at the Beaux-Arts, 18 drawing and painting prizes and the Grand Prix Lefranc.
Pierre DESENFANT is the Founder of the contemporary art gallery ART4YOU. He deepened his knowledge by following a course on “aesthetics and ethics” at the Sorbonne PARIS. He seeks to provoke a raw initial emotion before it turns into a waking dream over the interpretations of pictorial details. His painting, freed from a figurative context, participates in the creation of a language where lines and shapes are emancipated from reality to create a dreamlike universe.
We inspect it, we scrutinize it with the impression of having always forgotten an essential detail. We come back to it and the magic continues to work as if it presented a long initiatory journey going from a very distant past to a hypothetical future. He suggests a path but blurs the lines and the eye keeps wandering to find the way out. Anachronistic elements coexist without ever disturbing because they serve as a common thread. Daniel Gay is both an anthropological painter, whose work is imbued with historical references and also a wall-passenger who defies all academic constraints in his themes and his compositions, both figurative and abstract.” G.R.
"The Work-Trace"
Universal vibrations at the Trace: an approach that is both intimate and global revealed
by gesture. A spontaneous Art in search of harmony. He is in constant search of the ultimate "gesture", in a quest for different, personal and intimate traces, which nevertheless resonate at the heart of a universal Whole, leading him towards a desire for communion and spiritual elevation. The main thing is the power and purity of intention. If the momentum is good, the vibration and the trace will be beautiful. Everything is subtle energy.
Universal vibrations at the Trace: an approach that is both intimate and global revealed
by gesture. A spontaneous Art in search of harmony. He is in constant search of the ultimate "gesture", in a quest for different, personal and intimate traces, which nevertheless resonate at the heart of a universal Whole, leading him towards a desire for communion and spiritual elevation. The main thing is the power and purity of intention. If the momentum is good, the vibration and the trace will be beautiful. Everything is subtle energy.
Jérome Carrion is at the head of Labotanica.design. Always passionate about the plant world, nature fascinates him, to the point of making it his profession. It offers plant compositions to decorate our interiors.
Trained at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse, where he dedicated his business to plant decoration, he now creates objects based on stabilized plants. A process which starts from a base, a real plant, where the sap is replaced by a preservation solution: vegetable glycerin, pigments or mineral salts which will help maintain the freshness of the plant for several years.
For his plant assemblages, Jérôme Carrion draws a lot of inspiration from Asian vegetation, particularly bonsai, which he discovered after a trip to Asia exploring nature and its gardens. The artisan decontextualizes the plant to sublimate it into floral art.
Trained at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse, where he dedicated his business to plant decoration, he now creates objects based on stabilized plants. A process which starts from a base, a real plant, where the sap is replaced by a preservation solution: vegetable glycerin, pigments or mineral salts which will help maintain the freshness of the plant for several years.
For his plant assemblages, Jérôme Carrion draws a lot of inspiration from Asian vegetation, particularly bonsai, which he discovered after a trip to Asia exploring nature and its gardens. The artisan decontextualizes the plant to sublimate it into floral art.
A sculptor on earth, she spent her childhood between Africa, the West Indies and Occitania. As a child, she was introduced to ceramics by her grandmother and thus a passion was born which grew little by little, to be perfected during her stay in Vanuatu. She particularly likes to represent busts and faces, revealing the feelings of her characters. In addition to sculpture, she paints pictures and creates jewelry with earth, seeds and shells from here and elsewhere. Finally, she invents stories for children inspired by their drawings.
Having a structured, geometric approach, her work sits on a texture with an omnipresent organic tendency. The arrangement of lines, colors and reflections generates a feeling of calm. The black diffused in the whites, the bright red, the blue or the yellow bring to the perception a necessary depth of field.
Her singular and atypical journey is only the reflection of an introspection, an inner look, a vibration of the soul. Freedom again...
Her singular and atypical journey is only the reflection of an introspection, an inner look, a vibration of the soul. Freedom again...
The creations of Cercus present an original and contemporary graphic design, by the use of new techniques and processes. Jean-Baptiste began his studies in the field of wood and furniture in 2003, at the Lycée des Métiers d'Arts in Revel. There he acquired a pronounced taste for the creation of decorations and patterns combining wood with various materials and was particularly attached to finishing work.
Après avoir rejoint le collectif de créateurs "L'Atelier Folie Douce", il s'installe comme indépendant à Toulouse et se spécialise dans la marqueterie de paille.
Après avoir rejoint le collectif de créateurs "L'Atelier Folie Douce", il s'installe comme indépendant à Toulouse et se spécialise dans la marqueterie de paille.
Professional painter for more than 21 years in oil and watercolor painting, we find in his works a work of colorist where the composition, by its white or black geometric contours, participates in the whole of the work itself. -same.
His artistic approach consists of a suggestion by shapes and colors which sometimes plunges towards an abstraction of backgrounds with which my painting has always had fun flirting...
His artistic approach consists of a suggestion by shapes and colors which sometimes plunges towards an abstraction of backgrounds with which my painting has always had fun flirting...
“Art has been with me since my earliest childhood. I watched my father paint and I was fascinated by the techniques and his ability to “work”. As a researcher, I have experimented for over 10 years and developed my own painting technique which allows me, literally, to play with colors on a given structure. Colors are essential to my art; they are at the center of my creation as is the search for harmony. My technique, which I called 3D structuralism (patented in the United States and Europe), allowed me to merge shapes and colors and thus make them vibrate in unison.
A constant in my works are my elongated figures; “beings passing through” establishing a relationship between the world of representation and the visitor’s gaze. My numerous study trips have taken me from East to West, from North to South of this globe.
Today, one of my dreams has come true: I now work in my Workshop in the South-West of France. I settled in Fronton. My painting is an expression of joy and accomplishment. Each of my creations is a hymn to freedom in every way.”
A constant in my works are my elongated figures; “beings passing through” establishing a relationship between the world of representation and the visitor’s gaze. My numerous study trips have taken me from East to West, from North to South of this globe.
Today, one of my dreams has come true: I now work in my Workshop in the South-West of France. I settled in Fronton. My painting is an expression of joy and accomplishment. Each of my creations is a hymn to freedom in every way.”
