Attracted, passionate about art since childhood, great artists inspire her like Paul Klee, Victor Brauner, Suzanne Valadon, Frida Kahlo. Celtic bestiaries, old masks, ornaments, her dreams, furniture from the 60s to our future, the architecture and life of the popular neighborhoods in which she grew up, are the elements from which she draws her creative inspiration. . Petit Jouy trained in drawing techniques in the studio of artist-painter Muriel Astier-Lameignère. She mainly works in acrylic paint, ink and marker on canvas and paper. She likes to use, for backgrounds and details, the technique of pointillism on paper supports. The spontaneity of his work leads to a hypersensitive universe, where each work tells a story, conveys a message, challenges, releases an energy. For this, we find a certain gender duality in his characters, symbols predominate.
Petit Jouy tends towards sincerity, authenticity, art is its language. She seeks to question our current world, communicate her personal vision, on the questions of society to which she is sensitive, questions of gender, the environment, women, the relationship with our peers, or even the inner journey. The human is at the center of his works. Petit Jouy has also collaborated with a digital artist to create a virtual museum around his paper works.
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