Mapie

MARIE-PIER / MAPIE VALAY spouse GUILLAUD BORN 05 12 60 TOULOUSE FRANCE LIVES IN CHICAGO ...FOR 19 YEARS MARRIED TO ANTOINE TWO CHILDREN ; VALERIANE , GABRIEL Has been always around art and craft as a kid... after high school education , degree and worked in tourism/languages (english german italian)... lived Paris France, in London England.... FINALY arriving in Chicago back to her first love ...Art ! Some classes in ''chalk'', paint on wood in Paris, but really starded watercolor at Ed Hinkley studio in Chicago over 15 years ago... exhibits in southwest France, (Marmande ,Clairac,Luz Saint Sauveur..) through out Chicago (Three Art Club, Alliance Francaise, Stone Building, August House Gallery,and her Studio 'A Propos'...) Currently still attending Ed's studio a good support for improving, sharing,stimulating along with a great crowd of artists and a fantastic teacher. Takes classes in ceramic , at Lill Street Art Center with Liza Harris (handbuilding and wheel)..Sergio Cerone. (sculpture)..Robin Power (dolls) And try to work at her studio on Ravenswood, shared with ceramist artist Laurie Shaman .... Like to write poems...Enjoy good food and companie... Travels throught out europe mainly France and Spain...recently Asia, Japan and Cambodia Born of French parents from Tunisia , is more a Southerner/latin ...and has kept influence from those roots.(with touches from Lorraine and Austria....Provence and Gascony!) VIVE LA DIFFERENCE ! MAPIE

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