EXPOSITION "MURMURES"

Stéphanie Lecomte was born in Paris in 1968.
After studying music at the Boulogne-Billancourt Regional Conservatoire, in the violin class, she passed the Baccalauréat Arts et Lettres exams in 1987.
Passionate about drawing, which she had practised since childhood, she enrolled in a preparatory workshop for the competitive entrance exams to the grandes écoles d'art, and applied for admission to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris. She was accepted into Pierre Carron's studio in 1988.
She began painting on wood, on the theme of doors and windows, and pursued this artistic approach for 5 years.
In 1992, her teachers Pierre Carron and Georges Jeanclos organised a workshop on the painter Nicolas Poussin in Rome.
The following year, she obtained her diploma.
Stéphanie Lecomte exhibited her work in Hauts de Seine, Paris, and took part in several group exhibitions in the rest of France.
On her return from a trip to Egypt, she broke away from the interiors of doors and windows, and from the technique of painting on wood, to take on the grain of the canvas.
Following this discovery, she left to exhibit in Morocco, in Marrakech and Fez, for a few years.
When she returned to France, deeply influenced by the desert, Stéphanie Lecomte decided to engrave it in her paintings, whatever the subject.
Light, the common denominator of all her works, is always present.
She is exhibiting again in France, at contemporary art markets and in galleries, but also internationally: in the United States and Japan, in private collections.
She strives to retain the essentials through simplicity, using clean lines. She creates harmony and balance between full and empty spaces. A balance that is also sustained in the manner of a musical score, an art that accompanies her intrinsically in her work.
Like the minimalist movement of architect Mies van der Rohe, whose maxim was "Less is more", Stéphanie Lecomte inks this adage into her artistic approach.