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Anne Bellas

Anne Bellas

Anne lives in Nantes, Brittany, France. She has taught languages in several European countries, and it wasn’t until 2015 that she discovered textile art. It quickly became a total passion.

She uses a few commercially-available cottons, but above all the cotton and linen sheets and tablecloths inherited from her great-grandmother, which she dyes or prints and then stitches and quilts.

Anne’s works are not very figurative, sometimes alluding to landscapes without being completely abstract. For her, color and light are paramount. She knows that color has a therapeutic effect on the human being, and she seeks to create art that enables viewers to experience well-being, serenity and a moment of inner peace.

Several of her paintings have won awards or been selected for exhibitions in France and abroad (Russia, Germany, Netherlands, USA).

From River to Ocean

After living for a long time on the Atlantic coast, and now residing in Nantes on the banks of the Loire, Anne is obviously sensitive to the theme of the ocean and water in all its natural forms: coastlines and estuaries, rivers and lakes, stormy or dry seas, ice floes and storms are words that her imagination tries to recreate.

For this series, on which she’s working and which she exhibited last May in the USA, her sister Cécile, a budding writer, came up with a short text to accompany each of the works, developing the emotions and memories they evoke for her.

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