Danielle Fillion
We are so excited and glad to be working with Danielle Fillion again. We first met Danielle when Michelle was organising the art auctions for the Jassy Dean Trust on Waiheke Island and Danielle would graciously donate one of her colourful works for auction. She also came back to the festival year after year to paint en plein air in one of the gardens.
Danielle Fillion was born in Paris and began to paint in New Caledonia in 1986 under the instruction of an Indonesian artist living on the island at the time. One year later, she held her first exhibition, concentrating on the island’s landscape and marine life. She continued to paint in New Caledonia and later on Réunion Island where she worked for two years.
In Monet’s Garden, acrylic painting by Danielle Fillion.
Danielle and her family came to Waiheke 27 years ago from New Caledonia to experience something different while remaining close to the sea. Danielle is inspired by nature, colour, shapes, flowers, the sea and sea birds. But shape and colour are Danielle’s focus when painting, “I love the colours on the canvas and see the variation they can make on a painting and I have good fun when doing this. I try to find the beauty of nature. When I am finished I am rarely pleased, and it says to me that it is difficult to express your feelings on canvas and to replicate nature is impossible.”
Small works by Danielle Fillion are also available on our sister site Island Design.
