Sandrine Piegay

Guest Artist

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Biography

Originally from Lyon (France), Sandrine Piegay is a self-taught artist who began her artistic practice in summer 2019. Her talent quickly emerged, and just three months after starting out, she was offered an exhibition at the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan. In 2020, against the backdrop of the health crisis, Sandrine signed a contract with a Parisian gallery to illustrate a novel. In 2021, she published her first book of drawings with Grycan. In 2022, she is working on a CD album cover for a French artist. Her style, centered on the use of graphite and other dry techniques, explores both classical and contemporary realism.

Internationally recognized, she is a member of several prestigious art academies, including the Académie des Arts, Sciences et Lettres de Paris, the Académie Européenne des Arts-France, the Guilde Internationale du Réalisme, the UNOTA, the CIA, the IAA (International Art Association), the Taylor Foundation, and the Mondial Art Academia, which awards her the lifetime title of Chevalier Académicien.

Sandrine Piegay has exhibited all over the world, including India, Canada, Argentina, the United States, Korea, France, Italy… In 2023, she received two trophies from Indian galleries (Kolkata), then won the Medusa Award for the Biennale of the Arts in Italy. In 2024, she won a gold medal at the International Professional Art Awards (PIPA) and the Global Women’s Award, affirming her place on the world art scene.

A Drouot-rated artist and regular visitor to auction rooms, Sandrine constantly strives to surpass herself and reinvent her work, while continuing to draw inspiration from landscapes and everyday scenes to create artworks that invite contemplation and remembrance.

Co-organizer and juror of an exhibition in France, “Festiv’art Nature”, bringing together nearly 750 works, she also launched her own brand of leather goods, combining her love of art with French craftsmanship.

Artistic approach

Since childhood, I’ve loved traveling and discovering the heritage of our regions.

Primary inspiration, the secret treasures that nature’s landscapes offer us, but also the emotions of an everyday scene that we no longer see, caught up in time.

It’s an exploration in search of authenticity. The conquest of a refuge to rediscover the sweet sensations of an invigorating memory, like the emotion of the moment through the transience of a street scene. These intentions
are at the heart of my creative work.

Like an invited thought on paper taken from the edge of a wood during a snowy stroll, at the bend of a picturesque village or during chance encounters.

The canvas is a promise, that of a forgotten or present time that will become a memory for future generations. Gently, the pencil sketches little by little and approaches realism in black and white.

The details, the depth of field, the volumes and textures lift their veil, allowing those who look at my work to get as close as possible to the situations and places to be found.

In short, I scribble with a love of detail, the emotions of the landscapes that surround us, objects, scenes from everyday life or the heritage that I love so much.

Past and present, the two intermingle and become one… In my realistic, universal style, I invite onlookers to relive their own memories. A complicity born on paper, the tranquillity of vellum that caresses the memories of those who have the pleasure of plunging into the time of an ageless space.

All subjects are suitable for drawing. Monuments, landscapes, still lifes and scenes of life all inspire and guide me to offer everyone a little piece of my world, immortalized in pencil.

Sandrine Piegay

Dualité

La valise

le ballon (sold)

L’escalier

Promenade Hivernale (sold)