Claude Quentelo

Claude Quentelo had been a sculpture for many years, but, as ever curious and continuously evolving, she has since moved on to create new work with unique & innovative techniques. By previously using violin strings to assemble her sculptures and noticing their metallic vibrations, it was quite natural that she wanted to try it with her inks.

In her own words:
‘This research allows me to introduce my creations with China inks and natural pigments traced with a violin string. Just like Japanese technique of SUMI-E, usually practiced with brushes and feathers,

in a state of deep concentration, as there can’t be any correction, nor addition and as the same goes for the strings. The precision required is complementarity to my Tai-chi and piano practices.

One balances the body and the other harmonizes the guidance of the two hands, which are independent along the length of the string.
The ink line with its vibrations brings a graphic design that no brushes or feathers would make possible.
Through this invention, by being alone on my path, I am attached to the composition and to an aerial reading that would be linked: From poetry to calligraphy to the pictorial”.

These works are present in the Collections and Foundations:
LVMH, Maktoum, Museum of the Ile-de-France department, MOOD MEDIA,
Laboratories JOUVEINAL, OFIVALMO, Hachette Education book: Ink flower etc.

She completed training in the arts at the Académie Julian, Paris, France, followed with:
– Sculpture restorer at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France
– Creation of a monumental bronze “The Tree of Light” – Place Diderot in Saint-Maur des Fossés, France
– Member of the Taylor Paris Foundation.