Expo Christine Benson and Sybille

The opening will take place on Friday at our agency in Draguignan

FRIDAY June 16, the opening of an exhibition of works by Christine Benson and Sybille will take place on the premises of our agency in Draguignan, the women painters of the Château de Fayence.

B. Bernard, art critic, has just told us about these two women who devote their lives to fixing on the canvas one of faces and images, the other the “artistic fantasies” that she sees in life and beings.

“Under the sky of Provence, in a setting of olive trees, the talents of artists flourish in Fayence. And that’s where Christine Benson and Sybille seek and express their inspiration.”

Professor of painting in Bournemart [Bournemouth], England, then portrait painter for a major London newspaper, Christine Benson has traveled the world. From Europe to South Africa via Bangkok and the U.S.A. to finally drop anchor in our beautiful region.

Her work is made first of research for personality and then a concern for resemblance, which gives her portraits a power that brought her the chance to paint luminaries of our time. Such as Churchill and Doctor Barnard.
Also a symbolic painter, several times awarded in this genre, Benson always brings in her work and through her work, a message of humanity and tenderness, to which the influence of the Provencal sky is no stranger.

A neighbor in life of Christine, a friend through art, Sybille (despite this union in art) has no style resemblance with Benson. Painter of very lively inspiration, Sybille is rich in colors and has the mastery of them.
It is moreover in the harmony of colors and the originality of the expression that Sybille expresses herself with happiness.

In their workshops in Fayence, Benson and Sybille work non- stop, illuminated by the very colors of the landscape, its softness and its harmony. They welcome you at any time of the day with the same charm and the same sweetness that we find on their canvases.

The interesting series of paintings which will be exhibited from Friday in the premises of “Var-Matin” in Draguignan, will help the visitor to know enough to appreciate the work of these two women artists who have found refuge in the heights of the old Fayence Château, close, very close to the blue sky.