Lucille Boitelle

As an ornamental painter, Lucille Boitelle explores the boundary between decorative arts and visual arts. Her painting is a narrative surface, a sensitive interface between reality and imagination.

After completing dual training in design and textiles, she founded her studio in 2017 to question the place of decoration in its cultural and symbolic dimensions. Her wall, panoramic and textile decorations are entirely hand-painted. Each creation is based on documentary and visual research, nourished by the observation of landscape, botany and ornamentation. By collaborating with enamellers, weavers, embroiderers and lacquerers, Lucille naturally adopts an “ensemble” approach. On brushed paper, fabric, marquetry or ceramics, her work conveys a cross-disciplinary vision of decoration.

Inspired by the vitality of floral motifs, geological abstraction and the rhythm of repeated patterns, Lucille composes contemporary frescoes for exceptional architects and publishing houses such as the Chloé Nègre studio, Pierre Frey and Larsen. Sensitive to the idea of total art, her approach to decoration is closely linked to architecture. For her, decorating is a poetic act: a way of reviving the memory of places and constructing new imaginaries. •

photos : I searched for myself everywhere © Lucille Boitelle • Lucille Boitelle, Casamance edition © Casamance • Lucille Boitelle © Alexis Vettoretti • Lucille Boitelle, Pierre Frey edition © Philippe Garcia