Amélie and a golden eagle, 2016.
Pic : O.M.
AMELIE LE MEUR, PAINTER
self-educated to Wildlife Art since 1994,
affiliated professional at "Maison des Artistes" since 2004.
ART EDUCATION
MODELLATO & SCULPTURE | FLORENCE ITALY
APPLIED ARTS LICENCE | STRASBOURG FRANCE
Marc Bloch University, STRASBOURG
VISUAL COMMUNICATION BTS | ROUEN FRANCE
APPLIED ARTS BACCALAUREAT | ROUEN FRANCE
Lycée Jeanne d’Arc
PAINTING & DRAWING CLASS | JUMIEGES
WITH Frédérique Baray & Népo Herbelin
DRAWING & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION CLASS | BARENTIN
WITH Joachine Luciani
COLLECTIONS
« Petits gibiers » (WATERCOLOURS)
FDC | BELLEVILLE, FRANCE
« Règles d'Or en Matière de sécurité » (DRAWINGS)
FICIF | BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FRANCE
Privates :
FRANCE | UNITED KINGDOM
ITALY | BELGIUM| GERMANY
SOUTH AFRICA | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Wildlife contemplation is the origin of Amelie's work. She plays with pencil, watercolor, oil and acrylics to express alternately finenesse, power and emotion given to her by the animal world. Since an early age, Amélie observes Nature to open her mind to new sensations and feed her creations.
Amélie Le Meur is a french painter born in Rouen in 1981. She discovers pencil drawing and grows a fascination for animals at a very early age. She begins to take visual arts classes at 5 years old and exhibits her first dog portraits when she is only 13.
Born in a family of hunters, she draws her inspiration from wildlife she discovers growing in Normandy and later from her travels to Scotland and Africa. The migratory artist studies Applied Arts and sets up her studio near the Alps in Italy.
At 20, Amélie takes her first steps in major national wildlife art fairs and exhibits her paintings in renowned galleries in Paris. Her works are exported to Europe, USA and South Africa ; so that since the age of 22, Amélie is fully dedicated to Wildlife Art.
She devotes herself to watercolor, a difficult technique of which the transparence and precision of these paints allows her to retranscribe with lightness and fidelity the wonder of nature around her.
After a sculpture class in Accademia d'Arte of Florence, Amélie moves her studio in Western Paris. Between brushstrokes, she follows the Art History courses at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris which give her a new taste for canvas painting and inspire new creations.
True admirer of Leon Danchin's classic portraits or Carl Brenders' wildlife paintings, Amelie likes realism and has the intention to paint wildlife with authenticity.
Attention to detail and purity of lines are the characteristics wildlife art amateurs like to find in her work.
The eye of the faithful dog to his master, the fragility of a bird's feathers, the tranquility of a deer in the Scottish moors or the muscles of a suddenly jumping impala in the african bush ... these are the emotions Amelie wants to share.
"Three operations :
View, operation of the eye.
Observe, operation of the mind.
Contemplate, operation of the soul.
Whoever comes to this third part enters the field of art."
(Emile Bernard, Propos sur l'art)
MAIN EVENTS
Exposition au Clocher du Village en 2018
Club des Ateliers d'Artistes' 2016 Show | Paris Beaubourg
Salon des Artistes Animaliers 2015, 2016 | Brussels
Salon des Artistes Français 2014 | Grand Palais | Paris 8
Salon des Artistes Animaliers 2013, 2014, 2015 | Paris 16
Salon National des Artistes Animaliers 2012 | Bry sur Marne
« Art Animalier » 2015 au Clocher du Village | Boulogne-Billancourt
« Expo Internationale de l'Académie Européenne des Arts » 2015 | Paris Montmartre
« Prix du Jury » et « Prix de la Presse » 2015 | Galerie Thuillier | Paris 3
Biennale « Art Animalier » 2014 | St Pierre lès Nemours
« Salon d'été » 2014 | Galerie Thuillier | Paris 3
« Artistes contemporains » 2014 | Galerie Monod | Paris 15
« Salon des Artistes Indépendants Normands » 2014 | Halle aux Toiles | Rouen
« Artistes Animaliers » 2013 | Mairie de Paris 6
« Le Souffle de l’Art » pour « Vaincre la Mucoviscidose » 2013, 2015 | Bois Guillaume
« Out of Africa » 2012 | Espace Chevillotte | Paris 8
Exposition à la Galerie d’Art et d’Antiquités | Château de Bonnevaux
Exposition à l' Hôtel de Paris - Restaurant Le Castelet | Les Andelys
Exposition chez Beretta Gallery | Paris 8
Exposition chez Holland and Holland | Paris 16
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
« Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d'Artistes » 2014, 2015, 2016 | Boulogne-Billancourt
au Grenier à Sel 2012, 2014, 2016 | LA BOUILLE
à la Salle Maurice Leblanc 2004, 2014 | JUMIEGES
au Colombier et à la Dame Blanche 2006, 2008, 2010 | PAVILLY
à l’Office de Tourisme 2002, 2004 | BOURNEVILLE
OTHER EVENTS
Salon de la Chasse 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
(Stand des Dianes d’Île de France) | Mantes la Jolie
Nature et Vénerie en Fete 2015 | Grand Parquet | FONTAINEBLEAU
Salon Hunting 2012, 2013 | Gand | Belgique
Salon Départ de Chasse 2012 | Rungis
Salon International de la Chasse 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 | Rambouillet
Country Show 2001 | Paris 16
Game Fair 2001 | Chambord Castle
EXHIBITIONS since 1994 :
Festival du Chien | Chateau de Fontaine-Henry
Galerie St Wandrille | Saint-Wandrille Rançon
Armurerie Boutique Univers Chasse et Nature | Totes
Les Ateliers du Sacré Coeur | Paray le Monial
Ristorante La Griglia | Pino Torinese, ITALIE
Vente aux Enchères au profit de l’Epagneul de Pont Audemer | Pont Audemer
Maison de la Chasse et de la Nature | Belleville en Caux
Abbaye | Gruchet le Valasse
Chateau de Bois Himont
Château de Saint Pierre de Manneville
Chateau de Carrouges
Jumièges, Sainte Marguerite sur Duclair, Pavilly, Rouen, Allouville-Bellefosse, La Cerlangue, Duclair, Bacqueville en Caux, Yainville, Caudebec-en-Caux, St Paër, St Pierre de Varengeville, Angerville la Campagne, Bernières, Fourmetot, St Maclou la Brière, La Côte St André, Berre l’Etang, Breil, La Giettaz, Loudéac, Septmonts, Matha, Méounes