Artist:Catherine Marché, London, UK

Whispering Bells

Sleeping Beauty

Nice Back

Le Petit Chapeau

Catch a Falling Star

Blue Chanpagne

Iko Iko

Femmes de Marin

La Baigneuse

La Fatma

Saffron

Sabine

"I was born in July 1967, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine near Paris. Because of my father's job, I spent my childhood travelling and changing schools as much as three times a year. I grew up in France, Germany and Africa. As a child, I did not see colours in people and for me, the world was full of people of all races and colours, speaking hundreds of different dialects. I understood issues about discrimination only later when I was studying in the USA. Maybe this is why I do not respect a conventional approach of colours in my work.
I feel that these encounters with different cultures gave me a taste for travelling and opening my mind to different experiences. My different trips to Africa, America, Asia and the Caribbean opened my heart to the broad range of bright colours which are often used in my paintings.
I have always been interested in expressing myself through art, be it music, dance or painting. When my friends started to buy or commission my work, I realized I enjoyed it more than anything else. I still consider myself more as an autodidact and a 'touche a tout'. Curious about new techniques, I decided to enroll in art classes as I arrived in the UK, but I still prefer to express myself using my vivid imagination.
I look at several ways of expressing 'Feminine' and sensuality and another vision of life through dreams and imagination. I'd love my work to be able to cast a spell on the viewer and tell him things he does not know about himself through a fascinating exchange. I want to transcribe the way women feel, trace their inner emotions on paper. I think that women live in a fantasy world where they would love to be someone else; thinner, blonder, more beautiful happier :) ... and this is what I am representing.
Most of my work is figurative based on the human figure. The mediums I use the most are Oil painting and etching."

Catherine Mercedes MARCHÉ 2002

CATHERINE MERCEDES MARCHÉ

EDUCATION:

1984

University of Orléans(FRANCE), Graduation in Mathematice and Physics

Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Conservatoire National de Musique

1990-1

University of Vermillion (USA), graduation in Computer Science and Musique

1998-2000

Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, Etching - Photoshop + Web Design

2000

Putney School of Arts, Screenprinting

2001

Atichoke Studios - Lithography, Bankside Gallery - Linocut

INTERESTS

Saxophone, Ski-Rafting, Water-Skiing, Painting, Art Exhibitions

Year

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

LOCATION

2003

Vive la France, Solo Show
Cotman Gallery
Atrium Gallery
Sheridan Russell Gallery
Arts Upstream
Challenge the Nail 2003
Womanmade
Tayali Museum

London, UK
Wimbledon (Nov)
Ickenox Fine art in London

Fulham
Kensington
Cleveland Ohio
Zambia
Organiser of Balham arts festival open studios

2002

Museo Municipal, an exhibition touring in Spain

Orense, Spain

Harley Gallery Printmakers Show in conjunction with illustrations by Peter Blake.

Nottinghamshire, UK

FRESH Art 2002

London, UK

Salon des Arts - South Kensington (June-October)

London, UK

Fulham Palace Museum- June

London, UK

Webbs Gallery - Chelsea Flower Show: May-June

London, UK

St. Georges Hospital(April-May)

London, UK

Masbro centre, May

London, UK

Guildhall Gallery, with Printmakers Council, January

Winchester, UK

Artist in Residence, Vive La France, Haymarket, Olympia

London, UK

2001

Cotman Gallery - Group Show, October - December

Wimbledon, UK

15e Salon International Du Mans (Oct-Nov)

France

Encore - Show Business and Performing Arts, Putney Arts Theatre

London, UK

Group Show, Aartwork Gallery, May-June

Dewsbury, UK

Group Show, Warm Arts - Blue Ruin Gallery

Pittsburg, PA, USA

The Point, solo show, May-June

London, UK

Solo Shoow, "Women around Me" - Going Loco

Chelsea, UK

Group Show, Putney Arts Theatre

London, UK

Wandsworth Art Society, February, Group Show

London, UK

Woodenhead Gallery, February, Fantasy Show

Key West, Florida

2000

Wandsworth Festival, November 2000, Wandsworth

London, UK

Putney Theatre, Summer Festival, solo show

London, UK

Femme Fatale, group exhibition, Three Legged Dog Gallery

Key West, Florida, USA

Her Art, group exhibition, Woodenhead Gallery

Key West, Florida, USA

Not the Royal Academy Show, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, June-Sept

London, UK

Stuckism, The Real Turner Prize Show, Up And Above Gallery

Falmouth, UK

1999

Chinese Ink Drawings, Lawrence Hall

London, UK

Alg International, Recent Works

London, UK

1997

Gestus Concept Association Exhibition

Taverny, France

1995

De Terre, d'Huille et de Feu: Earth, Wind and Fire

Mesnil st. Denis, France ,/p>

1991

Recent Works Bladensburg Art Gallery

Maryland (USA)

Various commissions include - portraits, brochures/books, illustrations, interior corporate murals and other paintings, design of T-Shirts for events (International Student week, Notting Hill Gate Carnival..), posters for concerts and parties, flyers, website design.
Exhibitions and workshops organiser for the South West London Art Group - Curator for ArtMarkit.
Work in private collections in France, UK, USA, West Indies, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Germany.