Opened all the year, the “Corner of the Artists” begins in the season in September. Two exposures per month introduce painters of the island.

Paul Elliott founded the " ART LOVERS" association based here in Saint Martin, to promote visual arts (painting, photography, ceramic, marquetry, sculpture etc...) in the Caribbean by arranging events and exhibitions.

The society hosted their first Open House Week-end in February of 2004, during which the art galleries and many artists on the island welcomed visitors to their studios. The association boasts around fifty members today (painters, sculptors, photographers and ceramists).

Their aim is to spread this image of “the Island of artists" far beyond the confines of Saint Martin. After all ’Art Lovers’ is a reflection of the visual arts and rich cultural influences here on the island.

Born in the East of France, graduated in Fine Arts, Art teacher, Maryn started her artistic career with ceramics and contemporary tapistry.

Her representational and abstract paintings livened with writing, signs and collages reveal a very personal way of feeling and expressing the world. Her finely shaded colours make her style a very subtle one.

Mazel was born on the island of Trinidad in the Caribeban and lives in St.Maarten for over twenty-five years now.

She began painting five years ago because she needed an avenue to express the myriad of emotions clamoring inside her.

One can find in many of her paintings the mixture of two worlds, the Caribbean and Jura, where her husband is from. Her annuals visits to Franche-Comte has become a sort of pilgrimage to revitalize and stimulate her artistic abilities. As most artists, she harbors a vivid and sometimes unorthodox imagination. Some critics finds it difficult to categorize her work because of the difference in the genres.

Claudine GALLET lives between St Martin and Vence (Alpes Maritimes – France)

She loves to share each side of Atlantic ocean the landscapes of the French Riviera and thoses very colored of the Antilles – caribbean islands.

Olivier RUNEMBERT

Born in France, in Arras in 1965 from a working family in the ‘Pas de Calais’ region, Olivier amongst his 5 siblings, is the only one to be attracted to the artistic ways and from his youngest age he displayed a sure gift for drawing.

After a more than ordinary scholastic path he entered into the ‘Beaux Arts’ school of Douai in 1985. He then discovers a true talent for painting when never before had he touched a brush. At the same time another natural gift arose, this time more on the vocal side and spanning as many as three octaves that he lets out in the emptiness of deserted churches.

Artist to the tip of his painted finger nails, he is seen at that time diving right into the punk rock universe of Nina Hagen, every morning spicing up his look by comparing his face to an empty canvas and his body to a sculpture he created. He then carefully treads on the paths of past painters, authors and surrealist singers all such as Magritte, André Breton and many more.

Olivier is soon noticed by a producer and records under the BMG label his single “Some music plays”, an astonishing encounter between Dance music and opera. From television sets to radio channels and from promotional tours to the quiet streets of his home town he leaves an impression on everyone he encounters.

The 90s see his aspirations turn to helping people in need. While still singing and painting he goes on to setting up work shops of artistic expression in the realm of singular arts. The concept was based on the retrieval of used objects to transform them into unique masterpieces. Artistic passion and human compassion mix more and more leading him to specialized education for which he received a degree in 1998. His weapon of choice: the artistic dynamism at the service of the individual. From then on he will sacrifice all his energy to thinking, analyzing, conceiving and creating new tools to help him teach. Convinced that there is art in all of us, he gives body and soul to pass on that message.

After 10 years in the social helping sector, now stronger through that experience, he decides to take on another human adventure: traveling around the world. It’s on the African continent that for the first time he feels the desire to paint Man. On site, his tools always at hand, he paints frenetically, almost even obsessively. In him, both man and artist are deeply moved. He then understands that an unavoidable turning point is to happen in his life.

Back in France, he puts a hold on his educational activities and locks himself in his workshop to create a series of paintings that would testify for his experience. Moved by a sudden urge to share his feelings he scratches, rips, and covers his canvas with the brightest of color settings. His wild passion is expressed through a multitude of colors mixing with no hesitation the violence of contrast with the smoothness of the simplest of lines. […] His determination is peaceful, just as the captivating looks of the subjects he paints and their energy his very successfully attempts to materialize.

[…] Having his talents requested for a big French music-hall he expands his color palette and adapts his treatment so that he can carry out a series of paintings about a universe of entertainment for which he is fascinated.

As a Humanist Artist, Olivier Runembert witnesses and questions the own human condition of everyone of us through his creations. In May 2007 he takes off from mainland to land in the French West Indies on the island of Sint Marteen, where he continues his quest…

ALESSANDRA FIORILLO

Italian lady born in Lisbon, lived in many different countries, sailed around the world for twenty years... and is fluent in no less than five languages.

Graduated at "Deco-Arts School", in Lisbon and "Bruxells University of Arts".

"Later I want to keep in my eyes the light of things that I ’v seen "

A pictoral means to translate a universal language.

Sylvie Calley

You can find Sylvie in the jungle amongst lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and monkeys. There’s no danger. As a matter of fact, these majestic creatures invite you to observe them. Sylvie’s animal kingdom is her art gallery, Located on Petite Favorite’s place in Grand-Case.

This petite French woman paints with a big heart equal to her passion for animals. She has mastered the art of giving them personality and emotions that draw you in and touch the very soul of your being. Her folk art is another side of the artist; it’s light, fun and captures la joie de vivre.

GENEVIEVE IVANCIC

Cubist effusion, which borders sometimes on abstraction, the works of Genevieve Ivancic cannot depart from this aesthetic of geometric fragmentation. And try as she might other routes, her concord with cubism quite evidently prevails. Her scalpel eye, her rigorously meticulous graphics and her search for colourist harmonies, imbue her works with all their expressive character. Especially once she chooses to reinterpret the canvases of Degas, Leonard de Vinci….

The discovery of his first camera at the age of 5 and 25 years of diving and travelling, Jean-Michel Serveau fell in love with high definition panoramic photography and tryptics to better express his vision of the oceans.

Mixing traditional shooting with a large format camera and digital photography, his composition invites you in a world of color, contrast and beauty.

Living in the caribbean since 1996, he visited or worked in more than 30 countries.

His favorite places: New Zealand and the small atolls of the South Pacific.

Born in 1969 in Lannion, Cotes d’Armor.

Studies at the Beaux-Arts de Rennes, then the Faculty

of Plastic Arts de Rennes.

He started by very young comics,

before specializing in printmaking, the Beaux-Arts

Rennes, leading slowly to painting,

that practice over the past fifteen years.

All these influences are reflected in technical

his paintings, made from landfills,

transparencies, successive layers, peel

objects, skins on the verge of disappearance,

a fragile balance between image and paint;

A silent world in which the characters

are most often alone, as suspended.

MARIE MOURREFET

In 1966, Marie Mourrefet was born in the French volcanic region of Auvergne. She started drawing as a small child and soon fell in love with everything related to the arts. A twist of fate brought her to Saint-Martin in 1992, where she has lived ever since, dividing her time between family and work. Marie is an autodidactic artist. She started experimenting with watercolours as a diversion from acrylics, while here on the island and soon discovered this medium was much better suited to her style.

Her paintings are redolent of beautiful rich colours and a fresh yet elegant simplicity.

MARIE-LAURECE MOURE

Born in Paris in 1952, she stays in Britain where she spends a lot of years divided between her professional life of dentist and her family life.

It is during vacation in Martinique, in 1996, that she begins to paint.

She has been living in Saint-Martin since 2002.

She wants to divide her emotions in front of beauty of nature, maginificence of colours and expressions of faces she meets, all included in a very soft way that we find especially in the Caribbean.

PAUL ELLIOTT THULEAU

Since he arrived on the island, Paul Elliott Thuleau return to a figurative painting. He illuminates the traditional architecture of the Caribbean islands.

Façade of colored houses diminate his luminous oil on canvas.

Very close to his subject, his paintings are almost still-life and their simplicity help you to focus on the light.

You can dive in the contemplation of his shadow and light games at " L’Atelier des Tropismes " gallery in Grand Case.

SALOME LANGEVIN

Born in 1970, self-taught, she came to the applied arts with passion and love of art.

Very quickly, his approach was directed to Morocco where she finds the source of his inspiration, thanks to the colors and textures.

It is expressed mainly on wood and canvas, acrylic, it combines a variety of materials in its search effects arising regarding his favourite subject: The Doors.

PATRICK POIVRE de la FRETA

Patrick Poivre de La Fréta has crossed the border of the XXI° century with a paintbrush in his hand. From L.A. to Teheran, he has exhibited in Canada, Belgium, Germany, Locronan and Paris his birthplace.

Student of Salvador Dali, he reached the Caribbean island of Nevis ten years ago. The light and the colors became then the focus of his research for every subject that he paints. He has since settled in St-Martin.

JEAN-PIERRE STRAUB

Born in 1952, the artist became involved with the technique of marquetry (or inlaid work). Growing up around the familly work shop he did his apprentiship and perfected during 30 years his ancestral art. With a selection of over 50 different types of wood, the artist is able to exploit the colors and grains in a marvelous contras

JOSIANE CASAUBON

A native of South West France and installed in Saint-Martin for 20 years, Josiane Casaubon began to paint there is a ten year, influenced by his painter friend of Lot and Garonne, Josette At, it found in each of his visits to France.

His oil paintings speak of landscapes, still lifes, Caribbean scenes, animals, marine issues, Women Caribbean, or the desert and its Tuaregs.

The colors are bright and warm, a mixture of red, orange, yellow, ochre, or gradient of blue and white.

Josiane Casaubon exhibited his paintings in his studio: Gallery of the Eastern Bay No. 247