About Ginette
I am French born to a German Mother and a French Father and became a US citizen in 2008. I live in the United States and paint in Oil and Watercolors from my Basement Studio in Georgia.
I paint every day because that is what I love to do. Nature inspires me most, because nature is the biggest wonder of all. Animals, Flowers, scenes from around the world and places I have visited.
Simply from sun up till sun down my head is in a creative vice.
Most of my Travel paintings are the result from travels while I was living in Europe. I now live in the US and explore various states, recently traveling to Florida, South Carolina and Georgia coastal cities as well as many natural scenes that I put down on canvas and paper.
What do I want to accomplish with my art? Express a feeling or memory and transfer that to the viewer, facilitate feeling and thinking. If the viewer recounts a wonderful experience because of my painting, that is wonderful. If the viewer thinks about something deeply, that is a good thing. If a painting changes a viewers perception to the better, like I hope for example my snake paintings do, then I am extremely happy.
When I paint animals, I usually do it to help us see them in a natural light, and to to be a voice for them. Even when I paint places I want to show them in a glorious light, romantic, calming, soothing, exciting, mysterious or magical, the way I experienced the place or the way I dream the place to be.
If my art does all that that I won’t complain. Does my art do that? I don’t know for sure, others have to be the judge. If I also sell my work it means, someone at least thought enough of it to want to keep it and on a more pragmatic level, I can pay my bills. That’s not bad either. So I hope my art finds favor with you.
Over the years I had many accolades and won numerous awards. To the chagrin of my Friends, I hardly keep track of them. I always feel funny tooting my own horn. I’m trying to get better with that, so I have a blog now and when something happens I try to blog about it. Still feels funny to tell everyone, I now have five paintings hanging at the Georgia State Capital, sounds like bragging, but I was told I should tell you. So I do. I must say I was very excited about an article that appeared last year in the Worlds largest English speaking Newspaper the “Times of India” The Speaking Tree.
