Anne GUYONNEAU

Anne Guyonneau was born in 1957 at Lunéville (France). Her roots are however in the Loire valley. She has lived in Algeria, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon, Paris, Santiago (Chili), Loire-Atlantique and now resides in the Vendée (France). Originally a Video Director, Anne is a self-taught painter. She started painting with gouache in 1978. Positive meetings with art critics, collectors and museum founders of Naif Art, Anatole JAKOSVKY and Max FOURNY.
Painting in oil since 1986, Anne has had numerous exhibitions abroad, in Paris and in provincial France.

Anne Guyonneau is painting comes from poetic realism. Invited to exhibit in galleries in France and abroad, Anne Guyonneau adopted poetic realism, a spontaneous style practised in the past by self-taught painters, gifted with a natural plastic sense. Extending the tradition of sign painters and countryside portrait artists, this form of art was dying out towards the end of the Nineteenth century. However, it survived in the work of certain artists called  Primitives of the Twentieth Century.
Naif Art maintains the craftsman s character - sensitive and meticulous, it follows an inspiration derived from everyday life and reveals the interest that Anne Guyonneau dedicates to man at work in his environment.?

Eliane FOUICHER, art critic