Cecile Jaeger
ABOUT THE ARTIST :
Cécile didn't immediately accept her vocation as a painter, but it seems to have made her very happy today. Her mother's family includes several artists, including her mother, sister and brother-in-law. She began by studying life drawing at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris with James Bloede and then Patrice de Chalvron. This was followed by a two-year period at the Cour Roland workshops, where she practised sculpture, cabinet-making and painting. She then joined the Atelier de la Vigne in Etampes, where she studied with Philippe Lejeune, Christoff Debusschere, Franck Senaud and Jacques Rohaut.
Today, Cécile tends to paint on her own or under the watchful eye of Alain Marie, and frequents the studio at La Grande Chaumière as much as possible.
In addition to meeting the painters mentioned above, the most important experiences of her life were a month's embarkation on board the Dixmude, a French Navy ship. She left at the invitation of the Commander, Pierre de Briançon, and Marie-Bénédicte Leroy, a painter friend from Toulon. They worked hard on board, with a dual objective: a sale to benefit the Oeuvres Sociales de la Marine and a donation of several paintings to decorate the corridors of this new ship.
"To have the choice without being under influence. I don't live out of time, and the events that affect the world affect me, but I've chosen an optimistic vision of the free woman. You need Space and Sight to stand back and contemplate, and from contemplation comes emotion. You also need books, music... that's the family you choose for yourself. In the group that has formed around this exhibition, each of us has chosen to be reborn to herself through her artistic activity. Here we are, reunited on my canvases".
Cecile Jaeger
"In this joint exhibition, I had fun translating the personality that each of the shoes I had chosen inspired in me: one, placed on a chest of drawers alongside the earrings and necklace of the beautiful woman who came home late from a party; the other, resting on fabrics like a precious object... All these women's shoes make me dream and are apt to capture the artist's imagination.
