ISHN is delighted to help a young French artist make a name for herself

Chistelle Tea, born in 1988,  is an independant artist. She lives and  works in Paris

She draws from life not only portraits but also interiors and landscapes, or all together.

Specially for the ISHN Meeting, she designed a small serie of portraits of Jean-Martin Charcot, based on old photographs. One of them serves as the logo for the event.

After a degree in Visual Communication at the Ecole Olivier de Serres in Paris, Christelle Téa entered the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2010, where she studied with Patrick Tosani, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Philippe Comar. She obtained the Higher National Diploma in Visual Arts in June 2015 with unanimous congratulations from the jury.

Passionate about music, she produced a series of drawings of singers and instrumentalists of the National Orchestra of the Paris Opera, exhibited at the media library of the Opéra Bastille in May 2012. In 2014, she made a stay spent six months at Beijing Fine Arts (CAFA) and made numerous life drawings of the city, museums and markets.

In 2015, she participated in the Nature and Me workshop organized by Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Clélia Zernik for the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale in Japan. In 2016, she was in artist residency at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum in Paris, then in 2017 in Saratha Vilas, in southern India, and in Budapest, with the support of the Paris City Hall, the Institute French from Budapest and the Budapest Galéria. In 2018, she participated in the artist residency Le Souffle, in Sion-Vaudémont, in partnership with Bee Medias.

Today, she devotes herself mainly to drawing portraits from life, where she represents the model in her interior, paying particular attention to this environment, symbolizing for her the expression of the models' personality. These drawings are made directly in front of the model, in Indian ink, without drafting or repentance. Christelle Téa seeks resemblance but not realism, because for her drawing is about selecting the most significant elements from the complexity of the visible. Christelle Téa also devotes herself to interior views, drawn like portraits without models, as well as landscapes. In these works, she decants a materiality to reveal the essence of her perception.

On the contrary, his lecture drawings, made in real time, represent his visual and auditory impression of the speaker's performance.

© Christelle TEA, All Rights Reserved, 2024.         Website: https://christelletea.com/presse/