About the artist
THEODORA was born in Poitiers, with parents from Corsica and the Lorraine region. The family returned to Lorraine in 1945.
From 1950, she went to school in Metz which she made her hometown. Her talent was soon noticed by her art teacher who encouraged her to take drawing and painting lessons. For 13 years, she remained passionately devoted to these courses.
From a marriage in 1961 she had two sons : Olivier, born in 1967 and Benoît, born in 1969.
After a break entirely dedicated to her family, she resumed her painting activities in 1983 through courses at the Metz School of Fine Arts.
Since 1986, she has devoted all of her time to painting, making it a professional activity from 1988 on. She became a member of the Maison des Artistes.
The artist draws her inspiration from her childhood. She owes it to “THEODORE”, her grandfather, whom she often followed into an enchanted garden where he grew roses, flowers of all kinds, creating as many colours and scents, all stirred up to arouse a fascination of the senses that she reproduced and of which she made her own interpretation.
Add to this all the research and the amount of work spent at her easel in order to create a whirling world of shimmering, coloured shapes full of light.
From then on, she was awarded many prizes and distinctions : whether at the Salon d’Automne in Paris or in international contests, her name also appeared in the directory of officially priced works. She participated in numerous group or private exhibitions throughout Europe where her talent gained public recognition.
THEODORA’s works have entered many private art collections in France, Luxembourg, USA, Italy, Switzerland, Hong Kong.
Critics perceive the artist as presenting a different, new, futuristic approach, an original freedom of expression, that of an artist focused on matter, finding out in her work an action painting trend. But above all, THEODORA creates interior landscapes of an infectious intensity, using the flaming language of chromatic rules.
A number of private exhibitions are being set up in art galleries, others are up and running, for instance in the French administrative department of Meurthe-et-Moselle , in Paris, in Hong Kong, and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg – USA- Italy – Swiss.
RESUME
Theodora’s artistic training started as early as the age of 10, from 1950 to 1963, with courses in drawing, painting and from 1983 from 1987 she took courses in sculpture, pastel, watercolour and engraving from the Metz School of Fine Arts and other art schools.
She is a member of the Maison des Artistes in Paris.
Member of the Syndicat National des Artistes Professionnels.
Presides over the Académie de Peinture et Art Actuel in Metz.
Member of the Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques.
Member of the Taylor Foundation, Paris.
Member of the Académie Européenne des Arts-France.
Member of the Mérite et Dévouement Français.
Member of the Société Académique d’Education et d’Encouragement « Arts-Sciences-Lettres », Paris.
Codification of Artrinet by Francis Parent.
EXHIBITIONS
1983 CANNES, France
1985 CANNES, France
1986 METZ – MARLY, France
1987 SARREGUEMINES – METZ – NANCY, France – ST INGBERG, Germany
1988 METZ – CREUTZWALD – BITCHE – ST MAURICE, France
1989 PARIS Galerie HAUTEFEUILLE, Galerie DELPHA, France
LUXEMBOURG Galerie ST MICHEL,
1990 METZ, France, Maison Rabelais – DEAUVILLE, France
1991 SARREGUEMINES, France
1992 NANCY, France – AJACCIO, Galerie CONVERGENCES, France
1993 SARREBOURG – NANCY, France
1995 METZ – BLAMONT – MONTIGNY- LES-METZ, France
1996 NANCY – ROUVROY, France
1997 NICE Salon « D ‘ART NICE », France
1998 NANCY, France
1999 METZ, France
2000 Foire d’Art Contemporain (Contemporary Art Fair), BRUXELLES, Belgium
2001 MONTIGNY- LES-METZ, Espace Europa -. METZ, Banque Populaire de Lorraine (regional headquarters), France
2002 NANCY City Hall, guest of honour of the Institut Commercial de Nancy,
France
2003 PARIS Galerie SIRET rue de Valois
2005 METZ Caves Sainte Croix Exposition avec la Fondation de France
2008 BRIEY – Rotary International Exposition au profit des malades d’Alzheimer
2008 MARSEILLE – I Culori d’Umani – Espace Ecureuil
2008 AJACCIO – I Culori d’Umani – Lazaret- Ollandini
2008 AIX EN PROVENCE– I Culori d’Umani –Espace Municipal d’Art Contemporain Sextius
2008 PORTO VECCHIO – I Culori d’ Umani
2008 BASTIA – I Culori d’Umani Centre Cuturel « Una Volta »
2009 PARIS- Galerie NIKKI DIANA MARQUARDT Place des Vosges « EXPO ROUGE »
2009 MARLY- Société Générale Banque
2009 AJACCIO – I Culori d’Umani -Palais des Congrès et des Expositions.
2009 ILE ROUSSE – I Culori d’ Umani – U Spaziu .
2009 BRUXELLES – Comité Economique et Social Européen
2010 STRASBOURG – Parlement Européen
2013 Château POMPADOUR – ARN
2013 BRUGES -Le Beffroi
2014 FORBACH-Galerie Tèt’de l’Art
2014 METZ – Art en Stock
2014 CAP CORSE- SISCO
2016 – ART3F METZ – Salon International Art Contemporain
PRIZES AND AWARDS
- Tied for 3rd prize at the Grand Prix des Iles de Lérins in CANNES, France
- Prize for watercolour, PLAPPEVILLE, France
- Special award in LA BAULE, France
- 8th prize at the Grand Concours International 1990 in DEAUVILLE, France
- Finalist at the Grand Prix de la Côte d’Azur, France
- Registered in the Annuaires Internationaux de Cotation Officielle in 1990
- Gold medal from Fédération Nationale de la Culture Française in 1991, France
- Silver plate at the Grand Concours International 1991 in DEAUVILLE, France
- National honours (silver medal) – médaille d’argent du Mérite et Dévouement Français
- Bronze medal from ARTS- SCIENCES- LETTRES
- 2nd prize « Prix Signature » awarded by Syndicat National des Artistes Professionnels 2003.
FAIRS
- Salon des Indépendants, PARIS, France
- Art Competition, NEW YORK, USA
- Salon d’Automne, PARIS, France
- Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs de l’Est (Female painters and sculptors of Eastern Europe
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
France, Suisse, U.S.A. Luxembourg, Italy , Hong Kong