Gianne de Genevraye
Gianne de Genevraye is a painter that paints under the name of Gianne Harper.
© 2014 Gianne de Genevraye
Gianne de Genevraye is a painter. She paints under
the name of Gianne Harper.
Her work is present in collections in France, Italy,
Sweden and in the US. Born in California, she
obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Painting)
at the University of California Irvine, and had Judy
Chicago, Tony Delap, Craig Kaufman and John Paul
Jones as professors. After her arrival in France in
1986, she became studio assistant to Jennifer
Bartlett for three years. In 1990 and 1991, she was
an Invited Artist at the American Academy of Rome.
In 2011 Gianne painted and exhibited on site in the
château gardens where Mary Cassatt lived and
worked in France. In Fall of 2012, she finished a
painting residency, doing a project In the Garden of
Eden on site in the garden “Jardin des
Méditerranées” at the Domaine du Rayol in the south
of France.
In December 2012, she exhibited a series of
paintings realized at the historic vineyard Hospice du
Clos Cristal The Vine in Four Seasons at the Centre
Hôpitalier de Saumur and the paintings were shown
at the Château de Brézé in February 2013. She was
invited in 2013 to do a residency to paint and exhibit
at the Cultural Center of San Clemente in California.
Gianne has completed the first part of her residency
at the Hortense Miller Garden in Laguna Beach,
California. She will return in spring 2015 to finish the
paintings with the exhibition planned for June 2015.
Gianne is currently showing the paintings done in
residence at the Hanbury Botanic Gardens in on the
Italian Riviera this spring 2014.
The solo exhibition on site in the Palazzo Hanbury is
in June, 2014.
She has a book project “A Perfect Garden in A
Perfect Place” under consideration with French
publishing house La Martinière, with distribution
through Abrams, NYC.
Gianne also has several other residencies in public
gardens in the confirmation process around the
world; the Municipal Gardens of Menton, France, the
Mortella Garden is Ischia, Italy, and on the Island of
Trescoe in the UK, and in Normandy, France.
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Gianne de Genevraye
Mediterranean garden landscape painter
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