Who am I ?
I’m Lucile, illustrator, painter and engineer. Combining these different facets, I like to paint and draw to explain and highlight science, technical activities, and sometimes to deal with social issues that are close to my heart.
I’ve been painting for a long time alongside my work as an engineer, and decided to make it my second profession halfway through my life.
Industrial landscapes, building sites, as well as architecture and town planning inspire me and echo my professional experience in the port sector. In my paintings, I seek to highlight the beauty in the regularity of man-made lines. Through my drawings,
I love working with color, light and seeing images come to life. I paint in oil because I find it a living material. It always surprises me. The colors almost come together of their own accord and suddenly, for some reason, the subject comes to life, the painting speaks to you, the eye is drawn in.
My career as an engineer has also involved humanitarian work, regional planning, economic development and public policy, and has led me to broaden my thinking. So I like to draw in the service of a development project that needs to be shared, a public facility that needs to be publicised, a regional project that needs to be explained. My aim is to make information accessible to as may as possible and to encourage the general public to seek information, so as to contribute to the democratisation of our society.
To this end, I try to paint images that are strong and poetic at the same time, to put a sensitive spin on subjects that are sometimes a little abstract, to hook the reader, make them want to read and make them remember. I combine them with more playful and didactic drawings to make them easier to understand. My overall approach is to alternate between paintings and drawings, to give the reader a visual rhythm and accompany the text by lightening it.
Professionnals
I produce my paintings and drawings to order to use images to mediate your activities, projects and publications, and to offer art at your events. I invite you to discover the range of services on the link below.
Individuals
I offer my paintings in the form of fine art prints : top-of-the-range prints on beautiful paper, to be ordered online.