Yvette Le Tourneau

About the Artist

 

I am a native and current resident of Southern Illinois, having recently returned to the area from Northern California where I had resided for over a decade, preceded by years spent in other locations across the U.S.A  and overseas in New Zealand. Trained in the realist tradition of fine art at both Southern Illinois University and the Atelier Neo Medici in France, with a special emphasis on painting and drawing, I am currently allowing my work a directionality intuitive in its inception and formation. 

 

My work has been represented in Atlanta, GA. through the V. Reed Gallery, and through the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, GA. I have exhibited works in multiple juried shows in both Northern California and locally in Southern Illinois. My works are in private collections in New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; Northern CA and Southern Illinois.

 

The scope of my work has as a particular focus the sacred creative essence permeating and sustaining all form.

 

Artist Statement  

 

When I work, I work from emptiness toward spaciousness.

 

With my current work I am discovering it is vital that I leave space, within myself and likewise within the pieces; this spaciousness is the field through which the work can offer itself, to me, and ultimately to the viewer. 

 

My creative process is simple, yet deeply experiential. The simplicity itself was a long time in coming, when it arrived I knew I had fallen into the elemental ease I had so intensely and unknowingly been seeking. I am now 'with' the work in a way that erases any division. This singleness births, with each piece, my ongoing engagement as life. This being so, the work is quite organic in its formation, never forced, never coerced. What I see exits and enters; the worlds of inner and outer connecting as a point of focus ... as a particular visual reflection. What is reflected is for the viewer to discern as their relating allows. My hope is that the viewer will allow the spaciousness to lead them toward the richness of emptiness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Group/Solo Exhibitions:

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2020    Fiber Arts Exhibit                                                    The Ella Elizabeth Hise Museum of Regional Art

2020    Shrode Fine Art & Craft Competition Exhibit    Cedarhurst Center for the Arts

2015     Spring Open House                                               Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm

2014     Anything Goes                                                         Kitty Hawk Gallery

2013     Vessels                                                                     Sebastopol Center For The Arts 

2012     Borders / Bounderies                                            Sebastopol Center For The Arts

2012     Face Me                                                                    Sebastopol Center For The Arts

2012     Grand Salon                                                            Sebastopol Center For The Arts