Chapelière, Patrick

France, 1953

Patrick Chapelière is a self-taught artist who began drawing around the age of fifty. A former pastry chef, he then worked as a cook in a community and then in a DVD packaging company. To occupy the long evenings in his small village of Champfrémont, in the north of Mayenne, he draws a work made up of floral bouquets, fantastic architecture and scenes populated with foxes, birds, butterflies, etc. He paints in acrylic and draws in ink, felt-tip pens or pastels on paper, hardboard or recycled cardboard such as the CD cases from the company where he worked. He also paints the walls of his house, the interior doors and elements of the furniture decorating the surfaces with floral patterns reminiscent of the bouquets of Séraphine de Senlis.