Clo Hamelin

Birth of a Woman

 Initiated to drawing and painting by an engineer and ingenious grandfather, Clo Hamelin draws since the age of 10 years.

Starting from the principle that existence is a field of exploration and that it is good to exercise various human activities there, it experiments several trades. After studying dramatic art, she became interested in the psychiatric prison environment, and went to study at the Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris, where she was sensitized to art brut.

Desiring to find the brushes and colors, she trained at the Companions of France as a painter-decorator.

Later, when she became a mother, she was a model designer, a typographer, then a journalist and studied the art of photography. Considering to seriously reconnect with her muse, she enters the I.P.E.D.E.C, in painted furniture section, and studies the ornamentation, polychromy, and gold leaf as well as patinas and grisailles. In this school, she explores under the guidance of Philippe Fagot, archaeologist, the mysterious and complex world of colors.

It is in Jean-Pierre Besenval's workshop, that she closely resembles old techniques, and assimilates all the stages of decoration on wood. This workshop, which is very informative, allows him to discover other working methods. Feeling a great fraternity with the artists of the first ages, she handles a Neolithic palette, aboriginal, African, and transforms the furniture, sculpting the material on wood panels, giving them a singular and timeless atmosphere.

This work is the culmination of an artistic approach initiated a long time ago, on the margins of fashions, marked by acquisitions, colors and motifs gleaned over time, readings and roads.