Professional Career

With a degree in Fine Arts from Paris, Séverine Pineaux has worked as an illustrator (book covers, role-playing game publishers, etc.). A painter since 1996, she exhibits in France and abroad and is listed on https://www.i-cac.fr/artiste/pineaux-severine. She is one of the international artists featured in the game Sorcery TGC and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Naïa Museum and the Fantasmus Foundation.

Artistic approach

My realistic-fantastic paintings are intended to be a journey into a dream world, inspired by mythology and fairy tales, but also by cyberpunk culture, where past and future intertwine. On the theme of hybridisation, I combine humans and trees, plants and animals to create symbolist representations evoking spirituality, ecology and the bonds between beings. I place myself at twilight, between the light of the marvellous and the darkness of the strange. By merging trees and humans, plants and animals, and mixing machines and plants, I evoke the connections and unity of the world suggested by ancient spiritualities and contemporary science. I publish my works in graphic novels where the narrative is constructed from images, a mirror image of the concept of illustration.
I have chosen the classic medium of oil painting and the figurative approach to give maximum evocative power to my mental images and also for the pure pleasure I derive from the act of painting. I try to create with my adult technique in the spirit of my childhood.

Recent exhibitions

2021 - Fantastiques fonds marins – Château de Noirmoutier/Le cheval dans tous ses états – La Gacilly/A Chance for Happiness – Vienne
2022 – Salon d’Automne – Lunéville/Le Chapin de Noël – Paimpont
2023 – Un voyage en Bretagne Féerique – Châtelaudren/Beacon – Londres/ Déclic 23 – Aixe sur Vienne
2024 – Salon d’automne – Lunéville
2025 – Art Capital/Comparaisons – Paris/Fascinante Forêt – Château de Trécesson