Constance de Maistre

Constance de Maistre is a visual artist. Born into a family of women artists (mother, great grandmother, great aunt), he is told that art is not a job! After "serious" studies in communication and a few years of wage earnings in the INPI, she trained in decorative painting. For 4 years, she created theater sets for a troop of comedians, then showcases for the Fossier company in Reims. At the same time, she begins her own plastic research with workshops of artists from the Rémoise region. During a move, she enrolled in the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux as a free listener to deploy all her energy in the search for abstraction. In parallel, she continues to recover old family letters, old papers loaded with stories, old boats of boats ... She uses them in her abstract works, inspired by Rauschenberg and expressionist artists. Marked by very strong family stories , she never ceases to seek these forgotten, erased traces of life, which nourished her imagination and her works. In 2015, in collaboration with the pastry chef Mathieu Zurcher, of the Maison Zurcher Bordeaux, she worked to develop chocolate pieces, in the colors of her works, nicknamed "Constance". The project caused a stir in the region. In 2019, she exhibited in the Salle des Pas Perdus, from the TGI of Bordeaux, a building representative of the emblematic architecture of the firm Richard Rogers, on the occasion of the Heritage Days. For 10 years, she regularly exhibits in her region and elsewhere (Paris, London, Bordeaux, Le Mans ...)