chantal jamet

Born in Algieria, Oran, 1954, I spent my six first years in « La Senia », a little village where the army installed their flight base. We came back to France in 1961 in Romarantin. This is precisely at this period that I started seriously to draw. Then, we moved a lot to different places & all these…

Painting became natural few years ago as a mean of expression allowing me to free my emotions. This passion was born during my childhood, burried in earth during long years because of materail contengencies: earning money! But the spirit of creation of the adult gives a future to childhood initiatio…

Material and textures I experiment are almost in all my paintings. It goes from mortar & silk paper to cardboard sticking and even sometimes small glass pieces, gauze bandage, wood, coral or shavings. Sometimes it ends with a painting, guided at the beginning by… hazardeous ways! To give you an ide…