Michelle Breton

Michelle Breton is an artist who moves you, from a place deep inside. How does she do it?

Breton is a master of the organic abstract landscape. Her work is filled with movement, chaos and control. She combines colour, composition and texture to create space, action and excitement.

The end result creates a feeling that can’t be captured in words. Painting like archaeology backwards

Breton describes her process as an archeological dig in reverse. She starts by making marks. After that, she builds up layers and scratches them back. It’s a combination of pushing and pulling, guided by her intuition. The process can take days, weeks or even months.

“I’m guided by feelings and ideas. The painting tells me what it wants. Something will take me and I’ll go with it. Over the years, I’ve learned when to stop. It’s when I know it has all the elements it needs to make it harmonious.

Her paint palette, like her process, is organic. Colours speak to her, they show themselves. Breton’s inspiration comes from many sources.

She mentions Cy Twombly for giving her permission to embrace wild compositions. Pierre Bonnard’s lucious colours, so rich and deep and bright. And the Australian abstract painter Elizabeth Cummings is a hero. Giants like Matisse and Louise Bourgeois are also influences.

An intuitive journey to art Michelle Breton came to painting in her thirties following a career as an actor in film and television.

She had an awareness that there was something inside her that she wanted to explore, but she didn’t know what it was. She still remembers her first experience of painting, during a workshop with Kerry Johns in the Blue Mountains.

“I didn’t know how to hold a brush, but I felt that it was something I needed to do. After that first class, I came home and sat down and cried for three hours. It opened up something in me.”

She returned to study Fine Arts as a mature student. Today painting has become something she can’t live without. It’s an ongoing relationship that brings her so much joy.

The painting in the window

Our special connection began when she spotted one of my works in a CBD window. But it was several years afterwards when we first met.

She tells the story like this…

“When I was at art school, one Saturday morning on Collins Street I saw a painting in a window and went closer to have a look. I read the artist was Thierry B. I looked him up and kept him at the back of my mind.

Three years later, when I had finished my first batch of paintings I put images of them on a CD – as we did back then – and dropped them to Thierry’s place. I didn’t expect to hear anything, but before I got home, he called me and said, ‘Can you bring the paintings now!’”

That was the start of a beautiful relationship that continues today. Seeing the works in person is an experience not to be missed.

Retour A Bercaille

Retour A Bercaille

Mixed Media On Canvas 147 x 153 cm Signed, Dated and titled Verso

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Pres Chaource

Mixed Media On Canvas 183 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Le Petit Bois

Les Fleurs du Bien, 2018

Synthetic Polymer Paint On Italian Cotton 198 x 183 cm Signed, dated and Titled Verso

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Le Petit Bois

Mousse De Rayons, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 106.5 x 188 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Le Petit Bois

Le Petit Bois, 2022

Diptych Mixed Media On Canvas 132 x 66 cm each panel Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Somewhere Tomorrow, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 137 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Sometimes Yesterday, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 137 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Plaisirs d’Amour, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 153 x 120 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Le Sentier Du Pic, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 183 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Apres l’Averse, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 198 x 183 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Vapeurs De Pétales, 2022

Mixed Media On Canvas 183 x 183 cm Signed, dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B St Mont

Saint Mont, 2017

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Le Regain

Le Regain, 2018

Mixed Media on Canvas 152 x 122 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Rendez Vous

Rendez-Vous, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Vic

Valse De La Rose, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 122 x 183 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Paramour

Paramour, 2018

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Brouilly

Brouille A Midi, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 122.5 x 198.5 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Appel

Appel De La Mer, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 198.5 x 183 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Regard

Fil De Vierge, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Val De La Chevere Verte, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 112 x 152.5 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Plume De Rose, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 198 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B A Perfect

A Perfect Day, 2016

Mixed Media On Canvas 117 x 79.5 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Chant De La Mer, 2021

Mixed Media On Italian Cotton Canvas 193 x 182.5 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Regard

Regard d’Ete, 2018

Mixed Media On Canvas 149.5 x 100 cm Signed, dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B A Perfect

The Moment Is More

Mixed Media On Canvas 143 x 110 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Regard

Chanson D’ Etretat, 2019

Mixed Media On Canvas 183 x 198 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Nuage Flottant, 2019

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Tell Me A Secret, 2019

Mixed Media On Canvas 92 x 92 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Eclaircie A Quimper, 2021

Mixed Media On Italian Cotton Canvas 199 x 183.5 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Campanules A L’Aube, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Regard

Le Temps Des Cerises, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 122 x 183 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Thierry B Regard

Plume Glacee, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Pont De L’ Arc, 2021

Mixed Media On Canvas 122 x 183 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Eclipse Telegraph 23, 2016

Mixed Media On Canvas 183 x 152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Maquisard, 2020

Mixed Media On Canvas 193 x152 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Clairière Magique, 2020

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 112 cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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Marche St Pierre, 2018

Mixed Media On Canvas 152 x 137 cm

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Val De La Chevre Verte, 2021

Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas 112 x 152.5cm Signed, Dated and Titled Verso

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