Expositions de Fabienne Quinsac

 

Fabienne Quinsac
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ACRYLIC

Acrylic paintings - Planets and hellfires

Marine Constructions

Planets & Hellfires

Red & Black

Black Series

Red-Blue-Black

Grey & Red

Days of Snow

The Aprons

Monochromes

 

WATERCOLOR

Pinks masts - watercolor - marine art

Terrestrial Architectures

Marine Art

 

TAR

tar paintings

The Remnants

Colored Tar

Bubbling Blues

 

BONUS

French painter Fabienne Quinsac's curiosity cabinet

Curiosity cabinet

The surprising way a painting evolves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Space escape" (Fuite spatiale), by French contemporary artist Fabienne Quinsac, shows a very particular painting technique with acrylic and tar.

Fuite spatiale / Expansion (Space Escape / Expansion) was first showed at the annual exhibition of the Literary and Artistic Society of Orléans in 2007 (private collection)

 

Exhibitions

 

COLLISION, an acrylic triptych by French contemporary & informalist artist Fabienne Quinsac, was awarded the Thelem Prize for painting at the 100th exhibition of the Artistes Orléanais society.

In 2007, the triptych Collision was awarded the Thelem Painting Prize at the 100th annual exhibition of the Artistes Orléanais.

 

 

Award winning painter Fabienne Quinsac took part in dozens of exhibitions, mostly in the French Région Centre Val-de-Loire, where she could go (and have a drink!) with her friends and local colleagues. But she always refused faraway exhibitions and even proposals from galleries in Paris, which represented for her the worst side of art business.

 

From the early 1990's to 2013, Fabienne was either the guest of honour or held personal exhibitions almost twenty times, from L'école buissonière (Truancy, 1922, château de l'Etang, Saran), to Architectures terrestres et marines (Terrestrial and Marine Architectures, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, 1998), Eaux sauvages (Wild Waters, Olivet, 2007), Le feu et l'eau (Fire and Ice, Beaugency, 2008)...

 

The very first exhibition she took part in was in 1962, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, and the very last was as the guest of honour of Peintres de printemps (Painters in Spring), in Châtillon-sur-Loire, in 2013.

 

Le Feu et l'eau (Fire and Ice), an exhibition by Fabienne Quinsac and ceramist Zainab Nourbay, at the Saint-Etienne Chrurch, in Beaugency, in 2008 (photo by Dominique Moiselet).

 

Fabienne Quinsac received several awards, among which the Watercolor Prize at Artistes dans la rue (Artists in the Street Festival), in Dijon, in 1996 and 1998; the Grand Prize and the Gold Medal, in Issoudun, in 2005, for Roches et eau (Rocks and Water); the Grand Prize for mixed technique at the Lions Club exhibition in Bourges, in 2005; the Thelem Painting Prize at the 100th annual exhibition of the Artistes Orléanais, in 2007; the General Council Prize, in Olivet, in 2009...

 

Acrylic painting exhibition by French contemporary painter Fabienne Quinsac - Informal art - Abstract paintingFabienne Quinsac's paintings were shown in twenty exhibitions since 2013, among which Regards croisés (Intersecting Views) in 2014, in Saint-Ay (the small town along the Loire River, where Fabienne had been living for 23 years), with sculptures by her friends Val Carr and Claire Boris; at the Arpeca Spatium gallery in Sainte-Agnès (a mountain village with a view on the sea in Southern France, just next to the Italian border, where Fabienne had got married and where she used to come back every year); and the tribute exhibition held in 2018 in Grimaud. The latest personnal exhibition took place at the Clin d'Oeil Theatre, in Saint-Jean-de-Braye, near Orleans, in november and december 2023, with 21 acrylic paintings and 3 tar paintings.

 

The 2018 Exhibition in Grimaud payed hommage to the French informalist painter Fabienne Quinsac, who had died five years earlier.