Jacqueline Gandubert
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BIOGRAPHY
Jacqueline Gandubert, nee Friedli, was born in Fribourg, Switzerland. Her years of art school led her to acquire a very sure technique in several areas: drawing, oil painting and watercolour. Her years in Paris (1971 – 1974) brought her in contact with the works of the great masters. Finally watercolour became her favoured area and she masters its subtle alchemy beautifully.
Jacqueline Gandubert’s landscapes amaze us with their lovely vibrating presence. A house in Provence delights us by its subtle colours. Elsewhere, trees in simplified shapes testify to the care she takes in going to the essentials.
Some of her paintings seem tempted to take the leap into abstraction and come very close to having no subject. Yet, as if to tell us that nature remains an unchanging sovereign, gradually a subject reappears.
Jacques Biolley
In 2002 she obtained the Médaille d’Or (gold medal) at the International Salon of Créateurs du Siècle (Creators of the Century) of Art-Inter in Dijon, France, in the watercolour section.
She has exhibited her work in Paris, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, …..
“Jacqueline brings us back to the essential and to the essence of heaven. By the grace of beauty we are freed from gravity,” says Jacques de Coulon in an extract from his presentation of her work at the Galérie l’Eclaircie in 2008.
“Some of her works strongly invite us to tip over into silence and wonderment. We need only to stop and take time. We just need to say yes and to follow step by step this artist whom I would call a ferryman to dreams,” writes Jacques Biolley in an extract from his presentation of her art at the Passage Expo in the Canton Hospital in 2006.
For the last dozen or so years she has been engaged in intuitive, inspired oil painting, using a method she learned from Patricia Carron and which has enabled her to effect a significant transformation.
Today she takes great pleasure in passing on this pictorial approach to small groups of people that she accompanies on the path of inner discovery towards finding their creative potential.
Artistic approach
As a watercolourist, as Balthus also said so well, “I seek beauty, which for me is essence, the full light of the true and the image of the good.”
I seek balance:
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through the geometry that governs all things and structures the universe (divine proportion, the golden number, the rules of art),
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through the harmony and rhythm of colours, of forms and formlessness, of empty and full spaces.
(Perhaps more than anything else) I seek light.
These three elements – beauty, balance, and light – when brought together in a painting should give emotion, deep joy, well-being, and serenity to anyone who looks at it. I believe, too, in the therapeutic virtues of painting thanks to the energy of love that it gives off.
Therefore I do not particularly seek for originality…
I am particularly fond of landscape painting. Whether the landscapes are real or from my inner world, imaginary or dreamlike, I find here infinite possibilities that entirely satisfy my personal quest.
In each painting, in addition to the three elements mentioned above, I try to add a particular atmosphere or vibration that gives further emotion. I will never tire of painting! I aim however to refine and purify my painting more and more, working towards that which is essential, the absolute that joins the ALL.
Inspired oil painting is a path towards oneself that offers enormous pictorial possibilities. It is a way of painting that helps awaken Being, awaken a new planetary consciousness. Energy given off by paintings done in this manner touches the heart and speaks to the soul of the viewer. A place can be transformed and can lead to the spiritual healing of those who dwell there.
Exhibitions
2022 Re-Visionary Art Collective Salon, Aigle
2020 - Galerie O'Local, Estavayer-le-Lac
2019 – Visionary Art of Moscow, St-Petersburg
2018 - Vide Poche, Marsens
2017 - MAG in Montreux, invited to participate in the
2017 theme of Visionary Art
Place suisse des Arts in Lausanne - collective
2016 - WHO’S WHO international Art club, Galerie Etienne de Causans, rue de Seine Paris
Atelier 25 – Pérolles 25, Fribourg
2015 - Collective exhibition with her pupils at La Galerie Le Puits des Arts, Missy/VD
2014 - Espace-Expo, Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourg
St-Germain des Peintres, Savièse
Auction sale, Drouot cotation, Paris
2013 - Au Rural de Givisiez "Forme de rêve" - collective
2013 - Place suisse des Arts à Lausanne - collective
2013 - Galerie Oshoun - Fribourg - collective
2013 - Galerie Arcane, Corcelles / NE collective
2012 - Galerie Völlmy, Mézières
2011 - Au Rural de Givisiez - Collective A comme Aquarelle
2010 – Institut Agricole de Grangeneuve
Galerie Oshoun à Fribourg
2009 – Galerie du château, St-Aubin /FR
2008 - Galerie l’Eclaircie / FR
Galerie du Jorat – Mézières /VD
Galerie du Moulin de la Tourelle – Valangin /NE
2007 – Institut Agricole de Grangeneuve
2006 – Maison de Ville, Fribourg
Espace-Expo, Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourg
Hostellerie des Chevaliers – Gruyères
2005 – Galerie MC Arts et Fleurs – Fribourg
2003 – Artcade RG – Genève
Galerie Ollier – Fribourg
2001 – Musée communal d’Estavayer-le-Lac /FR
Galerie MC Art et Fleurs – Fribourg
2000 – Galerie du HMS Villars-sur-Glâne
1999 – ECM Fribourg
1998 – Galerie de la Source, Lausanne
Villa Mégroz – Lutry /VD
Galerie Antika – Charmey /FR
1997 – Télécom Gallery - Fribourg
Galerie l’Arbre Vert – Paris
Galerie les Yeux Noirs – Romont
1995 – Galerie les Yeux Noirs – Romont
Galerie La Marquise – Fribourg
1. Galerie Antika – Charmey /FR
1992 – Galerie du HMS – Villars-sur-Glâne
Galerie des Augustins – Genève
1991 – Galerie La Spirale – Vevey/VD
1989 – Galerie La Margelle – Fribourg
1987 - Galerie La Margelle – Fribourg
1986 – Galerie du Midi - Fribourg
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Re-Visionary symbol: I leave my work free of copyright so that it can be shared among people who wish to reproduce it in the spirit of the Collective, as long as they indicate me as author.
Copyright symbol: I am the copyright holder of my own works: my work cannot be reproduced, except by the Re-Visionary Art Collective, under the conditions as indicated above in point 1. Unless I give my written consent.