Annick Leroy
After a career as a computer scientist in the academic world, I began a second life in 2001 by embracing the profession of sculptor.
Always drawn to movement, I explore the freedom that bronze offers me. As a figurative and contemporary sculptor, I stage bodies suspended in space, falls, and decompositions of movement.
Through the trace of a dive, the imbalance of a frantic race, or the deconstruction of a symphony, for example, I seek to convey the emotion of a scene to the viewer, leaving room for the unspoken and for poetry, in order to offer them the pleasure of creating a story — their own — constantly renewed.
I abhor the body as an object; I seek intensity and emotion without displaying raw flesh, even when I depict the individual in their nudity.
Fairly faithful to anatomy, because I believe it allows for a stronger identification with gestures and postures, I also work on the graphic aspect and emphasize lines of force to enhance the intensity of the visual reading.
Sculptures in Britanny
Annick Leroy
Anne Smith
Born British, Anne Smith acquired her painter training at the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in London. She settled in Brittany in 1988. A resident of Brest and passionate about industrial sites and the maritime world, she dreamed of accessing the arsenals, boats, and lighthouses… She then decided to change her nationality and apply to become an official painter of the French Navy, a status which would open all these doors for her.
Anne Smith became French in 2003 and was appointed Official Painter of the French Navy two years later. She is the third woman to join the prestigious corps of Official Painters of the Navy. Her first embarkation was on a submarine (a choice for Anne Smith, who suffers from seasickness). But very quickly, she decided to go on other boats. In 2016, she spent six months aboard the Étoile, a schooner from Paimpol. She was an integral part of the crew, participating in maneuvers, standing night watches, and so on. She is also a naval officer. On board, she created 80 paintings and recounted this journey from Brest to the Arctic in a book titled “L’Étoile au soleil de minuit.” She set up her studio in La Gacilly. Anne Smith is also a sculptor. The artist regularly exhibits and compiles her maritime chronicles in books.
Sculptures en Bretagne
