About the Artist

PROFILE: French born artist , London based artist dedicated to paintings and photography
EDUCATION:
• 2001: BA Honors Painting Chelsea College of Art and Design
• 1983:​Master in Economics– PARIS-DAUPHINE University
• 1982:​Master’s Degree at “INSTITUT D’ETUDES POLITIQUES DE PARIS” SCIENCES PO
• 1979:​French Baccalauréat with honors. ​
LANGUAGES
• French:​Mother Tongue
• English:​Fluent
• German: ​Conversational
Jan 2005 – Dec 2007: ​ART AND ETHICS LTD- LONDON
Founder and Member of Board of directors.
• Contemporary art advisory for private collectors and art investors. (Photography and paintings mainly)
EXHIBITIONS
• 2002/ 2003/ 2004 EXHIBITIONS AT THE ACAVA STUDIO IN FULHAM
• EXHIBITION IN SUNGARD OFFICES THE CITY JUNE 2004
• EXHIBITION IN Bormes les Mimosas MAISON DU CAP SUMMER 2005, Provence France
• Group exhibition in GOLF St nom la Breteche 2006
• Solo exhibition at the Bastide st Julien Provence summer2006
• Exhibition the holy arg feb 22
Noho studio Fitzrovia London in April
Sept 2022 at the Hari London Hotel Belgravia

Artist Statement

Brigitte Schweitzer is a French born, London based artist whose work oscillates between abstraction, expressionism, gestural and metaphoric painting. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art (2001) with a BA in Fine Art in Painting.

In 2002, she exhibited in London in Acava Studio. She has had multiple shows in French private collectors houses and in London Sungard’s offices in 2004. Her work was bought in 2001 by the Andersen contemporary collection. For a long time she kept her work private and her inspirations came from her personal experiences, art history and the colours of the Mediterranean Sea. In 2020, she came back to London to continue her practice and where she is planning several exhibitions in London and in France.

About
Schweitzer is influenced by the big masters from Vermeer to Turner and the Impressionist of the 20s century painting. In Provence, she especially felt attraction to the abstract expressionism from Rothko to Jackson Pollock paintings, and to Gerhard Richter’s new vision of painting from photography. She also developed her own work around childhood Memory – her BA thesis subject matter. Her work is a constant inner search of meditation and spirituality. Zao wou-Ki is one of her pictorial references. Her paintings is about energy, vibration and harmony.

Other inspirations for the artist comes from nature, the sea and music. She paints listening to music and loves classical music especially Rimsky- Korsakoff but is also a great fan of Pink Floyds, Genesis, Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, all original music pieces without boundaries to style.
In her process she always oscillates between control and spontaneous pouring painting, between abstraction and figurative references to nature.
Her technique mixes acrylic, oil paint in a very eclectic approach.

About the Artist

Danielle Boghanim (b.1985, France, lives and works in London, United Kingdom) is a practicing artist incorporating printmaking, painting, drawing and embroidery in her work. Her background in graphic design has informed the way she engages with language and a well marked use of colour. She explores the tension between what is known, taught, felt and what is hidden, suppressed or re-arranged. Coming from a mixed cultural heritage, her mother born in Czech Republic and father born in Tunisia, Boghanim is interested in the construction, deconstruction and re-modelling of identities within Western societies. As a result, her approach is layered and an ongoing investigation using various processes and techniques.

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons The New School, New York in 2009. In 2016, she trained at the Royal School of Needlework in Hampton Court Palace and at Ecole Lesage in Paris to further develop her embroidery skills. She is currently enrolled at the Royal College of Art in London pursuing her MA in the Print department. She is due to graduate in October 2022.

About Artist’s Work:

How much in us is authentic? What aspects are inherited through literature, education and tradition? And how does our internal world process this information?

My work investigates these questions daily. Informed by my own multicultural background, I am interested in recording and revealing the criss-cross of personal identities and effectively how this builds the fabric of our times. Our individual experiences are woven into the societal structures in which we live in. So how do we matter, exist and feel safe? Or how do we not?

My practice is multidisciplinary and my process layered and transformative. In my countless notebooks and on my phone, I collect words, sentences, book extracts that stay with me. I also fill pages with my own internal chatter. These snippets provide the grounds of my work. I then move onto the more physical part of my practice and start by painting and drawing on acetate. Next, I bring these gestural marks into my silkscreen printing practice. This forms new material that l repurpose at a later stage. Back in the studio, I reshuffle and patchwork these personal recordings using stitching and hand embroidery. This final stage allows me to sit with the work and intellectualise it. Embroidery has a meditating aspect that helps me engage with the work before parting with it.