La petite réfugiée (2016) Painting by Maryse Curinier-Rochette

Maryse CURINIER-ROCHETTE


Born in 1954.


The artist lives in Ardèche, France where she worked for a long time as a teacher.

In 1977, following health problems, she devotes herself fully to the education of her children and decides to prepare jointly a degree in psychology by correspondence, and a preparation for the degree in plastic arts.


Her work as a painter is the result of the disturbing opposition of the two emotions that lead her to create: on the one hand a contemplative sensitivity, and on the other hand a deep existential anguish linked to biographical and societal elements.


This dichotomy is expressed in her paintings by a multiplication of genres, themes and techniques.

Each work in its singularity is the answer to a moment T of his perpetual back and forth in search of a complicated balance between his doubts and fears and his tendency to wonder, his will to optimism.

A study of flowers testifies to the simple pleasure of observing the infinite aesthetic generosity of his environment, but the next painting drawn in a few energetic brushstrokes betrays his dismay, his helplessness and his distress in front of the suffering of his fellow human beings.

Often, his impression of dramatic loneliness is staged in a more allusive way by a detail such as a lone tree at the water's edge.

Sometimes, the choice of a humorous title proclaims a well-conceived joie de vivre.


The viewer is at first puzzled by this eclecticism. But the multiplication of anecdotes on the canvas offers him many opportunities to empathize, and he can then join the artist in his exploration of the complexity of the soul.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists