Isabelle LAFARGUE

Depuis toujours, elle est fascinée par les couleurs, le dessin et la peinture. Autodidacte, elle aime explorer différentes formes d’expression, supports et sujets. Sa passion pour la peinture à l’huile lui permet de jouer avec les textures et lui procure un sentiment de liberté. Son second médium de prédilection est la peinture sur porcelaine, qu’elle a étudiée à Limoges, devenant ainsi Atelier d’Art de France en 2010. Pour elle, la peinture sur porcelaine est une forme d’expression délicate et méditative.

Aujourd’hui, Isabelle Lafargue s’exprime à travers ces deux médiums, qu’elle combine parfois sur une même œuvre. Ses créations sont exposées dans des galeries d’art au Canada et aux États-Unis, ainsi que dans des collections privées à travers le monde, y compris dans deux musées de son île natale.

Isabelle accorde une grande importance aux détails. La couleur occupe une place prépondérante dans ses œuvres, qu'il s'agisse d'explosions de couleurs vives et de contrastes ou de compositions plus douces et élégantes, à la recherche de l’harmonie. Elle aime également travailler avec des métaux précieux comme l’or et le platine, qui ajoutent une touche de noblesse et de magie à ses créations parfois fantaisistes.

Ses œuvres commencent souvent par un rêve, parfois éveillé, qui prend vie sur le support et résonne avec le spectateur.

She spent her childhood at the seaside, close to nature, and playing with her brothers and sisters. She still remembers the joy of discovering her first box of coloured pencils brought by the tooth fairy under her pillow at her grandmother's house. The artist grew up in a family of creative people on an island where the lighting is magical and the colors are vibrant.

Isabelle has always been fascinated by colors, drawing, and painting. Self-taught, she enjoys exploring different forms of expression, mediums, and subjects. Isabelle is passionate about oil painting which allows her to play with textures and gives her a feeling of freedom. Her second favorite medium is porcelain painting, which she studied in Limoges to become Atelier d'Art de France in 2010. Porcelain painting is for her a delicate and meditative form of expression. Today Isabelle Lafargue expresses herself through these two mediums that she sometimes combines in some of her pieces.

Her works are in public and private collections all over the world, including two marine paintings, at museums "Arche" and "Archipelitude" on her native island.

You can find her work in Art Galleries in Canada, Montreal, New Brunswick (Fredericton, St-Jean, and Moncton), Chicago, and in La Baule (France).

Isabelle cares about the details. Color holds a prominent place in her creations, it can be an explosion of bright colors, contrasts, feelings, or on the contrary something softer, and elegant in search of harmony. The artist likes to work with precious metals such as gold or platinum which add a touch of nobility and even magic to her whimsical pieces.

Her creations begin with a dream, sometimes awake, which continues to come to life on the medium and with the viewer. 

Isabelle is also a member of the International Porcelain Artist and Teachers (IPAT) and The Porcelain Artist of Canada Association (PAC). She is a grant recipient of ArtsNB and of Tourism, Heritage and Culture-Government of New-Brunswick.

In May 2016, she received the third price at the PAC exhibition held in Montreal for her creation “Souffle du Dragon”. In August, the artist participated at the IPAT competition in Las Vegas and she won the silver ribbon for her creation “Hijo de la Luna” and the bronze ribbon for the vase “Margouillat Kréol”.

Isabelle Lafargue also gives classes to the youngest by going for example to nearby schools to share her art. The artist said she “believe that through artistic education and expression, young people can change the world”

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“My creations begin with a dream, sometimes awake, which continue to lives with the porcelain”

​Isabelle Lafargue