KanChaï 20 Painting by Stéphanie Menard

Self-taught painter since 2007, I work by instinct and improvisation.

Very quickly, I feel more comfortable with acrylic, lying on canvas with a knife.

I search through my series Evaporation, Contrast or Océalie a variety of effects more or less important thanks to textures of different composition.

My paintings often use reliefs, nicks, furrows in the material that create both plays of light and colors.

These effects open me a door on a new work, a new series "Monochrome" strongly inspired by the famous painter Pierre Soulages. My favorite color is the black for its powerful and mysterious side but also the more poetic white in my eyes, then the red, intense and sensual.

In search of constant evolution, I let myself be guided by new techniques that I explore continuously.

Thus, I go through a long time with my KanChai series, in search of minimalism, balance or lightness.

Chinese ink on paper fascinates me.


Other series with mixed techniques appear over time "Cabaret" my faces of women or my characters in the Klimt for example, but also Aforetime whose paintings of this series seem to have been aged by time.


Abstraction or figuration (more recently), acrylic or digital painting (new technique), each work allows me to freely express my impressions and wanderings of my soul.


In 2011: opening of my online store, creation of my blog.
My presence on social networks brings me regular requests for creations.

May 2014: Exhibition and Opening at the Angel Art Gallery, rue Raspail in Carpentras throughout the month of May. Artistic performance (creation of a four-handed canvas with Serge Gisquière, painter exhibiting his paintings at the same time in the gallery).

June 2014: Permanent exhibition of paintings "Monochrome" and "Evaporation" at the Cave des Vignerons de Caractère, route de Vaison La Romaine to Vacqueyras (84190)

Permanent exhibition at the Galerie 'Camille and the Others' 28 bis rue Thiers in Avignon (84000)

July 2015: Permanent exhibition of paintings "Monochrome" "Evaporation" and "Contrasts" at the winery of Vignerons de Caractère, road from Vaison La Romaine to Vacqueyras (84190)

May 2016: EXHIBITION "Acrylics on paper" The Brick Lane Gallery The Annex LONDON

June 2017: Digital painting self-taught


Art Majeur Awards
Category: Silver Award 2016 2018
2018 certification established by Jacques-Armand Akoun on 19 Apr. 2018.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1973
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists