about
Despite everything,
Beyond the trials,
To walk… and to tremble with life.
Here or elsewhere,
Listening with my eyes
And to the whispers of my heart…
A fertile joy
Ignites me, floods me—
I let it lead the way.
To gather what takes shape:
The flame, the colors
That stir me…
And to write to you—
In washes, in poems,
In charcoal, in drawing, or with a brush…
It doesn’t matter.
Beyond words, to share
What carries me.
Cécile GAY LOPPINET
Watercolor Artist
To paint in poetry
with the music of colors…
To whisper something
of Life’s beauty —
in nature, in humankind,
and beyond…
To cultivate wonder,
and help blossom
a more beautiful human life —
one that cares for the Living
and honors it…
This is what inspires my life
and my watercolors.
My journey as an artist is a rebirth, a vocation received in 2014.
After the oil painting of my high school years, I found the joy of painting again, this time playing with colors and water, in the school of life that is watercolor! I love the co-creation that watercolor offers between water, paper, pigments, the artist and the Breath that deep down animates and inspires him…
I trained in watercolor and travel journal at the Conservatoire des Arts de Montigny le Bretonneux (78). Then I studied drawing with Camille Toutée and watercolor with Dominique Boittin.
And it is by training courses with recognized professional watercolorists that I continue this adventure of sharing and deepening the art of painting with watercolor. Thanks to Dominique Michel, Muriel Buthier-Chartrain, Reine-Marie Pinchon, Didier Georges and Emmanuelle Germaneau, who have already accompanied me on this path of “becoming an artist”. Thanks to Camille Legeay-Michel who, through her accompaniment and her workshops (mandala or writing), has allowed me to free my “poetic word”.
I realized my first exhibitions in 2017 in the Yvelines and opened my workshop in Montigny le Bretonneux where I live. I am registered as a watercolor painter since 2017.
And, since October 2020, I transmit my passion and my joy of painting with watercolor: courses or training courses to discover or deepen watercolor, to experiment and understand, in the welcome and benevolence.
Basic techniques and deepening. Year-round courses in my studio in small groups, occasional workshops: walks and watercolor sketches; or mini-workshops at the Atelier d’Artistes d’Iswiz in Chevreuse.
Through watercolor and artistic creation,
now an essential dimension of my life,
I long to convey
“the breath of a whisper”…
A poem of wonder
before the Invisible and the Beauty
sung by Life —
in nature, in humankind,
and beyond…