Anne Dewailly

Born in Roubaix in 1964, Anne Dewailly is a French painter specializing in portraits and genre scenes.
No less proud to represent her now, her talent has already captivated audiences beyond our borders, whether in Europe, the United States, or the Middle East.

Despite lacking academic training, her painting technique manages to evoke powerful emotions. Brush, rag, palette knife, fingers—the variety of mediums employed is equally important. Her oil painting is the sincere expression of a passion for the Dutch masters of the Golden Age, the Gulden/Gouden Eeuw.

Born in Roubaix in 1964, Anne Dewailly is a French painter specializing in portraits and genre scenes.
No less proud to represent her now, her talent has already captivated audiences beyond our borders, whether in Europe, the United States, or the Middle East.

Despite lacking academic training, her painting technique manages to evoke powerful emotions. Brush, rag, palette knife, fingers—the variety of mediums employed is equally important. Her oil painting is the sincere expression of a passion for the Dutch masters of the Golden Age, the Gulden/Gouden Eeuw.

She seeks to blend the realism of the tronie—its original meaning is understood—with the idealism of others, such as Vermeer. Women, men, or children, when her models are not close friends, she encounters them unexpectedly; it’s her true gallery.

As an admirer of Vermeer, the play of chiaroscuro is essential in Anne Dewailly’s work. Her mimetic work, enhanced by oil, always strives to find a balance between light sources. Light speaks, and the subject’s silence is all the less oppressive. Varying in intensity, light and contours always diffuse, and the soul seems to soar with the persistence of the spectator’s gaze. In fact, the subject emits it as much as he receives it, bathed in a halo, playing the role of Charon the psychopomp. The effort of rendering on the skin detaches them from this world. For Anne, faces and bodies must be bathed in a soft, tranquil light, which exalts their model, much more than the pose or the gaze.