Voices of Experience - Sophie Amauger

“In the school of graphic arts where I studied advertising drawing, one of my teachers told me to ‘draw every day’. It is the best advice I have ever received.”

Le Vieil Arbre Chez Marcel 20 x 20” Pastel

French pastel artist, Sophie Amauger paints the landscape on location, with a sensitive command of color and light. Her background is in the graphic arts. Amauger studied at the Rennes School of Fine Arts in Brittany and the Brassart School of Graphic Arts in Tours. In 2000, she dedicated her work entirely to painting the landscape. Since then she has been named a Maître Pasteliste of the French Pastel Society. She exhibits her work in borth France and the Netherlands.

Amauger wrote to us about her childhood love of nature that continues to inform her work today.

I was always very close to nature and, as a child, spent all my holidays on a farm. The smell of grass, the shade under the trees, the wind across the fields gave me a feeling of freedom, the same …