Bertrand Donnot

Montjean Sur Loire, France •

Artist (Sculpture, Painting) •

Born 1949 •

DONNOT
Boat Conde
The harbor
49570 Montjean / Loire
06 08 64 66 84

Born in 1949 in Vieillevigne in the lower Loire; studies with the Brothers of the Christian Schools, then at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes, but devotes most of his time to hunting waterfowl from the Vendée marshes to the Loire estuary around Lake Grandlieu;

1974 sailing across the Atlantic. Sensual stopover in Ponta Delgada with
Azores.
1976 retrospective of the first ten years of creation rue de la Tour in Paris
in the Jean Audouin gallery. In addition to limestone, he carves Lambert's cedar
and fruit trees.
1980 purchase of an armed barge for the grocery store which has just completed its last
rotation between Nantes and Saint-Malo. Discovery of the Breton canals and
Loire quarries, marble from Château Panne. He anchors his barge at
not far from the abbey of Solesmes where there is a beautiful
black marble. Year of slow maturation of a neo-rupestral art made known by the Down-Town gallery in Paris from 1986.

From 1990 Katia Granoff and la Hune gallery exhibitions in Paris; art comparison passage Pommeraye in Nantes, Sanguine in La Rochelle
- 1993 participation in the Salon d'Automne in Angers
- 1994 edition by the Paris Mint. Mengin gallery exhibition in Cannes
- 1995 gold medal at the Vanves show; purchase of a sculpture by the town hall
- 1997 marble sculpture (16 tons) for the town hall of Montjean sur Loire
- 1999 Besseiche gallery in Deauville, Courchevel, Dinard, Paris
- 2000 invited to Korea to make a granite sculpture
- 2002 series of monumental sculptures on the banks of the Loire
- 2005 delivery of a monumental sculpture in Germany