Thérèse CIGNA dedicates herself to pictorial art that she has practiced since her childhood. In a creative approach, she explores media and techniques that have a link with her former professional activity: printing, through her practice of artisanal printing.

Her artistic approach consists of going straight to the essential: the movement, the sensitivity and the emotion of a particular moment (l’instant T), which abounds in the philosophical thought of Lavoisier: « nothing is born nor does not perish, but existing things are combined… ».

BIOGRAPHY

Born January 6, 1961 in Loire, France.

1981: Publication of a first collection of poems by Le Progrès.

1981/2003: Corrector at Dauphiné Libéré in Isère, where her short stories were published later.

From 1981 to 2016: Publication of collections of poems and novels,

1984: First Prize for Poetry, book designed for UNICEF on the children of war.

Publication of three novels 2011-2015-2019.

Publication of « la bûche » by Maia editions in 2020.

At the same time, Thérèse exhibits her works in different places and organizes artistic events in her region, and Saint-Etienne with the association « Poing de vue » and the biennale d’Art singulier

Work on x-ray prints with spray paint, collages and drawings.

Galina Zernova is a Russian painter who lives in the beautiful city of art – Florence in Italy where she is currently studying at the Faculty of Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. She is originally from Moscow where she previously studied Russian folk art. Galina considers artistic practice as a wonderful gift enabling her to share the beauty and richness of life. That is why, in addition to painting, she also practices other artistic disciplines such as creation of designer toys, jewelry and pyrography. She constantly pushes the boundaries in painting by researching and testing new techniques.

Here, we offer you a selection of her pictorial works resulting from these researches where the artist succeeds in depicting the soul of her favorite cities.

A series of etchings on embossed cardboard in which she immerses us in the heart of Florence, allowing us to feel the atmosphere of this city through typical scenes, like cats resting under palm trees.

Color prints are dedicated to her hometown – Moscow. In this series, the artist works on the effect of the interplay of colors in the printing process.

The artwork with blue buildings plunges us into the heart of Tallinn! It is not a strict representation of a particular place in the city, but rather a representation of the ambience ruling there.

The three abstract works were created by the artist under impressions left by trips to Piedmont (green painting) and Tuscany (red painting).  Then a blue-orange painting representing the conclusion of this series.

Layla Reguiai was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1982.
Until the age of 19, she attended a French school in Tunisia and studied Fine Arts  at Sorbonne University in Paris. She currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Layla Reguiai defines herself as a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with diverse origins and identities.
For her, everything is in the imperfect tense, just like the grammatical tense. Her works are unfinished and incomplete. Only the viewer’s gaze completes them.
Her art is an escape, her sanctuary, her freedom, a lighthouse that guides her through the meanders of life. Her work, essentially autobiographical and full of emotions, is her soil, which she says she never stops exhuming, a means of conveying her perception of the world.
She acts by reflective associations of ideas, images, sensations to tell her story.
Associations that can easily find an echo in the stories of others.
From ordinary facts to strangeneses, she establishes a communion, a dialogue with the viewer.
Her life experience in a conservative Tunisian society on the one hand and in a French and German societies on the other hand have led her to question herself and the different mediums she uses, and to question her I-dentities.
Within her plastic works, the themes raised by the German-Tunisian artist are: injustice, taboos and the acceptance of all kinds of differences.

RO (Romina) Ferrer is an Argentinian illustration artist. Her art is an art committed to gender equality. Her pencil is a sharp blade revealing and fighting against the inequalities of our society. RO is immersed into daily life by giving instant answers to injustices via social media where she has thousands of followers. She represents hope and gives courage to women not only in her country, but all over the world! Her enthusiasm changes minds, breaks boundaries and blockages. RO’s illustrations are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always true. They give off a lot of energy and demonstrate the multitude of everyday life situations that many women are going through.

Marie DONIN is an artist-painter, designer, sculptor, art teacher in Saint-Etienne (France). She has been practicing art since her earliest childhood. Her artistic creation is mainly focused on personal development and well-being. For Marie, art is a force capable of healing the soul. Artistic creation is like a solid boat that follows the course of life, recovering all trials. Therefore, she transmits to her students both her technical knowledge and her vision allowing them to develop the incessant creative energy. Marie is convinced that art influences life by making it better and brighter.

Ksenia Poncet, Russian born French artist-painter for whom art is a sincere dialogue without borders where the process of artistic creation is magical and full of adventures. Therefore, the artist has s chance to share through her art her incredible life experiences and her profound emotions.

Life by its richness gives her the will to approach many topics. Her works are telling stories, raising questions. They invite the viewer to enter an enchanted world full of complex and interchangeable colors and shapes.

Her studies of art and several years of practice have led her to become constantly curious artist who explores the limits of mediums as ways of expression. Therefore, she remains in permanent development and seeks to enrich her artistic practice by testing new mediums, new techniques and new technologies in traditional painting, street art and design.

Ksenia’s multinational origins and knowledge of six foreign languages also play an important role in building her distinctive artistic style. In addition, her work is greatly influenced by her life experiences of long-terms travelings, diplomatic postings and encounters with people from different cultures.

Through her art, Ksenia promotes the idea of the respect of fundamental human rights, gender and racial equality and equal access to education. Ksenia was volunteer artist for the United Nations Women’s Guild in New York for more than four years, where she has contributed through her art to fundraising projects to help children in vulnerable situations all over the world. Ksenia has also participated in several group exhibitions and in 2020 created “Name it!”, Campaign to fight violence against women and girls organized by UN Woman Asia and World Design Organization.

She creates murals for public organizations, in particular for the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures of the University of Nantes in France.