Her works were then presented in Paris and the Villa Médicis in Rome, and were praised by professionals and published in specialist magazines. However, she was more attracted by stage fashion than haute-couture, and chose film and advertising. A stylist and costume-maker, she often works with Cinecitta in Rome. From her italian experience, she has retained the deep, warm and sensual colours – sun-filled ochres, velvety reds, intense blues and deep greens. At the beginning of 1990, she decided to turn to painting exclusively. After two years of self-training, she became in 1992 the pupil of Pierre Ramel, Mac Avoy’s disciple and bursar who taught her the technique of using a knife to paint with oil, which she uses in smoothed out form to achieve an effect of transparency. Annick Bouvattier is the painter of silences, of small, insignificant gestures performed every day, trivial moments, fleeting glances, unsaid words, speechless stories – but many collectors have already «heard » those silences.
SOLO SHOWS :
1993 Galerie Jason. Perpignan. 1996 Galerie Etienne De Caussans. Paris 1997 Galerie Saint-Cyr. Nevers. 2000 Galerie Aktuaryus. Strasbourg 2000 Galerie des Chapelains. Nevers 2001 Galerie Tosaka. Paris. 2002 Galerie Aktuaryus. Strasbourg 2002 Galerie des Chapelains. Nevers 2005 Galerie Artclub. Paris 2005 Galerie Futurart. Bruxelles 2006 Galerie Salvany. Clermont-Ferrand.
SALONS & EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES :
Exposition d'Été. Decize. 1992 Salon d'Automne (Grand Palais) Paris. 1993 Salon de Bourges.1994 Salon de Printemps. Decize. 1996 Musée de Marzy. 1997 Artexpo. New-York. 1998 Galerie Christian Dazy. Dijon. 1998 Galerie Hugues Penot, La Baule. 2007 Galerie Joël Dupuis, Hardelot/mer. 2007 The Catto Gallery, Londres. 2007 Galerie Joël Dupuis, Hardelot/Mer. 2008
Annick Bouvattier was born in Nevers in the mid sixties. Her father, a paediatrician and art lover, passed on to her from her early childhood his passion for painting. In 1982, after passing her school-leaving certificate with a science major, she broke away from the family tradition of studying medecine to enrol at the « Berçot – Marie Rucki » scool of fashion where, for two years, she trained as a stylist.
