Anne Bellas

Anne lives in Nantes, Brittany. She taught languages in several European countries and only discovered textile paintings in 2015. It quickly became a total passion.She uses some commercial cottons, but mainly cotton and linen sheets and tablecloths inherited from her great-grandmother, which she dyes or prints before piecing and quilting.Anne’s paintings are not very figurative, sometimes alluding to landscapes without being completely abstract. For her, color and light are paramount. She mainly uses bright, joyful, energetic colors: she knows that color has a therapeutic effect on humans, and she strives to create paintings that allow viewers to experience well-being, serenity, and a moment of inner peace.Several of her paintings have won awards or been selected for exhibitions in France and internationally (Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States).

EXHIBITION

From River to Ocean

SPONSOR

Town

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

Year

2024

After living for a long time on the Atlantic coast, and now residing in Nantes on the banks of the Loire, Anne is obviously sensitive to the theme of the ocean and water in all its natural forms: coastlines and estuaries, rivers and lakes, stormy or dry seas, ice floes and storms are words that her imagination tries to recreate. For this series, on which she’s working and which she exhibited last May in the USA, her sister Cécile, a budding writer, came up with a short text to accompany each of the works, developing the emotions and memories they evoke for her.