Marie Vanesse

 

Traditional decorative painting – mural painting restoration

Silver medal, Van der Kelen institute, Brussels, 2001

 

• field experience • creative rigor • relationship competences

• flexibility – curiosity– adaptability

 

French-Belgian nationality, born in 1972

 

Atelier Eschlimann, France, 2010 - today

Wall paintings, murals and polychromic woods restoration / gilding

Listed historical buildings

Responsibilities

   Site setup and management

   Team management and site meetings supervision

   Training of new employees and mentorship of trainees

   Provision of documentation and reports

Sounding/studies/diagnosis

   Sounding and graphical overview

   Preliminary studies and condition report

   Methodology proposal

Preservation/restoration/reproduction

   Emergency conservation measures and preventive conservation

   Stabilization and consolidation

   Cleaning, refitting and protection of the pictorial layer

   Fill of the accidents and losses, expert retouching

   Identical reproduction (if possible and wished by the project manager)

 

Self-employed, Belgium and France, 2001-2009

Decoration and restoration

   Conception and realization of decors et patinas on walls, stone and wood

   Trompe-l’œil, graining, marbling, gilding

   Historical murals restoration

 

Main references

« Le Louxor », cinema, Paris, France

Borely castle, Marseille, France

Aigremont castle, Flémalle, Belgium

Fontainebleau castle, France

Prefecture hall, Montpellier, France

Unterlinden museum, Colmar, France

Louvre museum, Paris, France

Opera-theatre, Vichy, France

Historical court house, Lyon, France

Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon, France

 

Bibliography

Peintures, recettes maison, éd. Le Bec en l’air, 2010

50 ancient paint recipes, revisited

 

Professional Guild

Since 2010, member of Salon, international gathering of decorative painters

Exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures

   Bergamo, Italy, 2009

   Versailles, France, 2010

   Atlanta, United States, 2011

   Hamburg, Germany, 2012

   Tokyo, Japan, 2013

 

Training

Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris

Applied physics and chemistry for the cleaning of polychromes, 2013

 

Institut Van der Kelen-Logelain, Brussels

Heritage decoration painter, Silver medal, 2001

 

École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels

Master degree in visual communication, graduated with honours, 1994

 

Autodidact

Technics and theory of restoration

 

Languages

French (mother tongue), English (fluent - everyday and technical)