Reine Mazoyer

Mazoyer was born in Montbrison in the Loire département in central France on 6 January 1944. Her father was an upholsterer, decorator, and antique dealer, while her mother was a seamstress and upholsterer. Both her father and grandfather were amateur painters and she has said that she owes her vocation to her father. ==Career==

Painting and sculpture She met the film director Robert Mazoyer (1929–1999) in Paris, and they married in 1965. They had one son, Julien (1966–1992). She first exhibited in Paris in 1973, having previously shown in Brittany. She also worked with her husband as a set designer (e.g. in '), and appeared in some of his films and series, notably the 13-part television series '. In 1997, her husband produced a 23-minute documentary called Le Portrait du peintre (The Portrait of the Painter) in which he followed his wife in the act of creating a painting. Original music for the soundtrack was by Jacques Loussier. In 1973, Mazoyer won the Pierre David-Weill Prize for Drawing, awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In 2024 she contributed a group of colourful ceramic masks to decorate a 700-year-old olive tree in the gardens of the Château de la Bastie d'Urfé in Forez in the Loire. It was called the Tree of Love and Reconciliation. Mazoyer has also published ''L'Etang aux trente-six sourires (The Pond of 36 Smiles - 2009), a series of pastel drawings on black ink accompanied by haikus, inspired by her life as a young girl; Souvenirs d'Enfance, a book to accompany her exhibition at the Espace Trait Personnel in Paris in 2007; and Portraits d'Écrivains'' (Portraits of Writers - 1993), a series of drawings and water colours of writers, both friends and her favourite writers, including John Lennon and Albert Camus, accompanied by short texts. Filmmaking Mazoyer also became a director of several short films. In 2013, she released À la recherche de Santo Modico, made in Brazil and inspired by her late husband's 1961 film, Santo Modico. Earlier, she had collaborated with her British partner to produce a series of shorts about Friendship. To do this they tracked down many of the boys with whom her partner had been to secondary school in England. Filming took them to Australia, Gambia and Rome, as well as England. ==Solo exhibitions==

Mazoyer's solo exhibitions are listed below. She has also contributed to around 20 collective exhibitions. • 2024. Paris Arty-Show, Paris • 2022. Rencontres imaginées, Musée d'Allard, Montbrison • 2017. Rencontres imaginées, Bordeaux • 2015. ''Portraits d'artistes'', Paris • 2013. Apocalypses (Installation), Lyon • 2011. ''Esprit d’enfance, parcours d'installations'', Montbrison • 2009. Spirit of Childhood, London, England • 2009. Pastels, Montbrison • 2007. ''Souvenirs d'enfance'', Lyon • 2002. Le temps des cafés, Paris • 2000. MAC2000 Art Contemporain, Paris • 1999. Espace Chatelet Victoria, Paris • 1998. Le Manteau de Lucrèce, St Etienne • 1997. Le labyrinthe au-delà des forêts (Installation) Paris • 1996. Le tremplin, Lyon • 1995. Passions d’eau, Paris • 1994. MAC 2000 Art contemporain, Paris; Le Mans; Offenburg • 1993. ''Portraits d'écrivains'', St. Etienne • 1992. Galerie Lilianne François; Galerie Magda Danisz, Paris; Galerie Alias, Paris • 1991. Triennale du Pastel, Allonnes, Sarthe • 1990. Mac2000 Art Contemporain, Paris • 1989. Hérétiques, Mac 2000 Art Contemporain, Paris • 1988. Hôtel de ville, Garches • 1984. Chez un collectionneur, Paris • 1983. Galerie Matisse, Vichy • 1979. Galerie Aéroport d'Orly, Paris • 1977. Maison de la Culture, St Etienne • 1975. Galerie Annick Gendron, Paris • 1969. Empreintes et reliefs, Kerdruc, Brittany ==References==