marina jolivet

The penguin lives in the south pole, the penguin in the north pole, but the reciprocal is alternatively possible if they are manic-depressive because it is a bipolar disorder ... from there, I need no more than catch my brushes and go !!

Self-taught visual artist, she almost became a researcher in chemistry, but struck with a sudden lucidity she felt that it was better for her to look elsewhere ... She recently became a house painter, a profession she was particularly fond of, but she chose to give it up to devote herself to raising wooden penguins. She paints in acrylic all kinds of supports (wood, wig, plastics ...) she shapes to create humorous humps in various situations (painful, unusual, comfortable ...). His favorite themes are music,especially jazz and nerdy artists, mushrooms, rants of all kinds, engaged or not, stupid or subtle word games, but especially the poles and environmental problems associated with these regions. Her "Expolaire", the first edition of which took place in October 2008, allows her to give free rein to her obsessive passion for penguins, polar bears and caribou. her work is available on all formats from magnets to children's rooms through paintings, maps, frescoes...