Jacqueline Poitevin

Jacqueline Poitevin was born in the autumn of 1948, in a farm where there was a water mill, near the castles of the Loire. She grew up in the middle of fields and meadows along the Indrois river where she devoted herself to drawing and painting on all the supports she found in her environment.

From 1960 to 1968, she was a boarder in a school where she studied until her baccalaureate... there her universe narrowed... she wrote and drew on sheets of squared notebook.

1969, it is the arrival in Paris! She abandoned her "artistic activities" but took great pleasure in visiting museums. The attic studio where she lives is so uncomfortable and small... but she dreams that the world belongs to her!

The days are laborious, the years pass with their lot of changes... fortunately, she had the opportunity to travel: Spain, Italy, Canada, Peru, USA, Colombia, Beijing, Tunisia, Egypt...

From 1998 to 2000, enthusiastically, she left to work in Colombia as a teacher.

In 2000, she returned to France for a short period, where she had difficulty finding her place!

In 2002, she returned to Colombia. This time, to accompany Afro-descendant and indigenous communities in a conflict zone, more precisely in the Chocó, where she rediscovered nature, a lush, exuberant nature in the middle of primary forests, on the banks of the Atrato, a river of exceptional width. The Colombian people are very cheerful and welcoming... she felt very comfortable and she is nourished by the richness of the environment.

Later, she will tell her experiences with the communities in a booklet "Anecdotas y algo más" and its adaptation in French... which will never be published. Now she is preparing a documentary "20 years later..." to discover what has happened to the communities she has accompanied over the years?

She stayed in Colombia until the end of 2005, when she was forced to return to Paris after a bad relapse... This particular period allowed her to reflect on the quality of her life and to imagine new projects, but it would take her some time before they became a reality!

From 2007 to 2010, she worked with young victims of abuse. Later, already retired, she studied perspective drawing and interior design, then abstract painting in a studio where she painted on the floor, on large canvases. It is a discovery that gives her intense pleasure!

Finally, it will be an important step for her to accept to share her artistic universe by showing her work and... to let it go, to go to other places.