Ingrid Christoffels trained at a fine arts school in the Netherlands
with a degree in art history and painting/drawing.
She has lived and worked with her brushes in France for 33 years.
In my paintings I express a feeling of fullness and freedom that one can
feel when walking on the beach or in the fields.
Everything is self-evident! There are no frills, everything is said in one movement (or almost).
For 43 years, his paintings have often changed subject but the energy,
Harmony and rhythm are still relevant today.
The feminine is very present in his work, seen from the inside, the strength of the spirit shines through beyond the carnal envelope.
These women, standing upright on their bikes, continue their journey with their own baggage: "a question of balance"
They turned; portraits of women.
We find the same energy in his paintings inspired by nature or jazz.
The creation of the paintings next to the musicians and dancers opened up these "magical" moments.
obviously where these paintings are directed by an inner movement.
Listening to music is a medium linked to its creation
She has done installations and live performances in several countries, in France with Renaud Capuçon and at the Peristyle of the Opera de Lyon.
She is the winner of the “Traversées” creation grant.
His paintings can be found in several European countries and in the United States.
Acquisitions by the Renaud Foundation, the Jean Marie Menez Collection and the Jacques Outin collection.
She completed a 4-year training at the École de Provence de Yoga which ended in 2018 with the defense of her thesis “Yoga and the arts.
Since then, she has been a certified yoga teacher at FNEY and teaches yoga one day a week.
Making art accessible to all is close to his heart.
Between 2000 and 2015, she was a member of the board of directors of the Mason d' Arts Plastiques Rhône-Alpes in Lyon. After living 26 years in the
South-East of France, she settled in La Teste de Buch in 2019.
In 2021, she was the patron of the Movement d'Arts festival in the town of La Teste de Buch.
In the same year she created the ArtSens association to promote plastic and visual arts in La Teste de Buch.
In 2023, at the invitation of the Bordeaux Academy, she worked on the motif with 30 visual arts teachers under the theme of color.
In 2024 she exhibited these works with Martine Pinsolle at the Fonds Labégorre, Seignosse.
Professional experiences
19 83 Bac option sciences (VWO-B Mendel college, Haarlem)
1984 Fine Arts Netherlands ( Royal Academy for Kunst en Vormgeving Den Bosch )
1984-87 Fine Arts Netherlands ( Akademie for Pictures Art Tilburg )
1987 Bachelor of Art (History of Art / designer/painter Bachelor of Art History and Painting) Hoge School for art Tilburg
88-91 Professor of Art History and Plastic Art CKV Tiel , Netherlands
89-90 professor of visual arts linked to the regional SKV in the Netherlands with the mission of (visits to primary schools to paint with
THE students and show teachers another way of approaching painting.
2005 Illustration of the philosophical book “ Een world for correct people ”.
2013 since, manager of group exhibitions.
2000-2015 Member of the Board of Directors of the Maison d’Arts Plastiques Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Lyon
2014-2018 Yoga teacher training at the Provence Yoga School
2018 thesis “Yoga and the Arts” defended in Villedieu,
2021 Certification as a yoga teacher by the National Federation of Yoga Teachers.
2021 Creation of the ArtSens association to promote plastic and visual arts in La Teste de Buch and its surroundings, interim president
2021 1st Prize for the visual of the poster for the port festivals at La Teste de Buch
2021 Winner of the “ Crossings ” creation grant .
2021 Artist sponsor of the La Teste de Buch Arts Movement festival.
2021 Founder of the ArtSens association
2023 Interventions at Herri d' Heurle College / Bordeaux Academy with Visual Arts teachers
Since 1987 interventions and exhibitions in public places and galleries in France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Among others:
2024 Art Capital Palais Éphémère Paris
2024 Labégorre Seignosse Fund
2023 Cap Sitelle Arts Exhibition 33970 Cap Ferret.
2023 Improvisations at the cinema residency and exhibition in collaboration with Ciné Sans Frontières.
2021 Art Movements Gallery 'la Source' La Teste de Buch
2018, 2008 and 1998 Inauguration and ten-year anniversaries of the Saint-Maur Rhone Art Center
Bagnols sur Cèze
2005-2018 Permanent exhibitions at: Château de Rochegude (26790), Mercure Orange hotel , Uzer Castle in Ardèche
2015 Nîmes Bodega 40 portraits of the matador El Juli
2015 Living lines in the Dance Village and at L'Olympia d'Arcachon as part of Cadences
2009 Jazz pictorial improvisations at the Peristyle of the Lyon Opera .
2007 Christoffels 20 years of Painting Rhone Art Center Saint Maur Bagnols sur Cèze
2004 “ Binnentuinen ” Tutch communications Amsterdam
2003 The Music of Colors Renaud Foundation Lyon
2002 Fenettart , Villars sur Glânes Switzerland
2001 Galerie Vlasblom Arnhem Netherlands
2000 Christoffels House of Plastic Arts Rhône-Alpes Lyon
1994-2000 Music for your Eyes Gallery, Avignon
1992 Bathers Gallery Profiles Collioure ( Pyrenees Orientales).
1990 French Connection Streekmuseum Tiel Netherlands
Installations and live performances
1999 Production of the paintings (twice 200x200 c m .) inspired by the "Carnival of the Animals" at the Château de Grignan, carte blanche to Renaud Capuçon .
2009, Live jazz pictorial improvisations at the Peristyle of the Lyon Opera followed by numerous interventions alongside jazz musicians.
2001 Klank en kleur concert with 5 tableaux on stage created while listening to the Serenade in C op.10 by Von Dohnanyi, Bloemendaal, Netherlands.
2010-2015 Live paintings alongside Cie Flamenco Vivo, Luis de la Carrasca
2012 Organizer of a round table “ Creation according to” with a writer , winemakers and painter as part of “ Book Days ” in Sablet.
2010 Regards croisée , reproductions of the paintings which bear witness to a meeting with Nani for the façade of Maison Nani, Avignon
2021 Move visual improvisations alongside Marine Thibaut music and Marion Plantey dance Theatre Henry Gravey La Teste de Buch
2021/ 22 Visual Improvisations Flaubert Baudelaire Reading and musical accompaniment by Jérôme Stiefbold
Paintings in private collections in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, England, Spain, Norway , Sweden , Austria. Acquisitions by the Renaud Foundation, the Jean Marie Menez Collection and the Jacques Outin Collection .
