LAFITENIA (2005) Painting by Jacquotte Gaignault

“… Jacquotte is a first name, a technique, a style.

Studies in Visual Arts in Bayonne then led her to French and foreign letters and then to a career as a stylist, led in France and abroad, for the benefit of some major clothing and surfwear brands.

Jacquotte Gaignault decided to interrupt her long trip around the world to settle in Guéthary, where her workshop overlooks the sea, the old art-deco casino and the famous Parliamentia spot...

In a few exhibitions, Jacquotte has imposed his signature and his vision of the Basque Country. She has won over varied and demanding audiences, often aesthetes who have succumbed to the rigorous tenderness of her stripped seaside landscapes, her Luzian or Biarritz shores, her zoom shots taken on stacks of Basque linen with seven stripes or rows of of surfboards, on a pair of rope sandals, on the shadow of the leaves of a plane tree carefully described by a sure line, and projected on the red and white facades of the Labourdin villas….. “

Article by Richard Picotin, Director of Journal Sud Ouest

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists