Florence Duchateau's Contact Details

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Florence Duchateau Art

Oxie, Skane County, Sweden • 1 Employees
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An international classically trained artist from Belgium, Florence Duchâteau (French: [dyʃato]) captures with humour and sensibility the romantic comedy of daily life and its little surprises. Her style is fresh and distinguishable, her art unpretentious and generous in its accessibility. She personifies thoughts, feelings and moods without filter through this flirty, funny, sarcastic, often clumsy and incidentally sexy little heroine who most viewers can easily identify and become familiar with quickly, episode after episode.Duchâteau comes from a family of artists. As a child she used to paint with her grand-mother and her uncle. She recalls those cherished moments: " My grandmother was an aquarelle artist. She taught me how to paint with water colours. As a child and then a teenager, I went to my grandmother every day after school. She would sit with me and help me speed through my homework so that we could paint together..." Later, in the early 90s, Duchâteau took evening classes in live drawing and sculpture at the Academy of Brussels. She then got to illustrate some features and beauty pages in the Belgian insert of Cosmopolitan magazine. She experimented earlier with different media and techniques, but has always gone back to aquarelle. For her, painting with water is exciting and daring because of the element of uncertainty; you're never totally in control. But with the right technique, with each new painting you make your own pact with water; it is a game, sometimes a fight, always a dance, and then suddenly magic happens. ..."Comic strips are a typically Belgian art form, which she has been bathed in from the day she was born and it soon became her favourite form of visual expression.Florence grew up in Liege and after her studies, spent 20 years in London. She now lives in South Sweden with her Swedish husband, their 10-year-old son and a silly sausage dog.