Laurence
Waldner

Weaver studies, 2nd and last apprentice of France. From 1983 to 1985, Laurence followed a weaving apprenticeship for two years, in the workshop of Mr Jean-Yves Nicot located in Locronan, Finistere in Brittany. With her apprentice master, she learns the basics and golden rules of weaving. By understanding these rules, she discovered her own path, opening the doors of her imagination. From 1986 to 1992, she did various internships in Haute Couture. There, she learns the magnificence of materials and colors, the open-mindedness of mixtures, learns to persevere to form a new idea. In 2000, Laurence Waldner enrolled, first at the “The chambers of trades and crafts” and then in 2010 at “the house of artists”. In 2005, she opened her own art gallery in the downtown of Vannes in France. While having a workshop next to the city, allowing her to work on new creations and to sell them in the gallery. Since September 2016, it’s in the heart of Paris, in the 7th arrondissement, that Laurence Waldner’s workshop is located. 
The artist, with her contemporary textile works, works around an emotion, forgets for a time the golden rules of weaving:
The shuttle stays on the side, the hands alone work on the craft to translate the look, the imagination, the feeling; to mix the textile fibers with the other elements coming from the nature or elsewhere, to twist, even violently the matter, to search the color, to seek the gesture of the painter, the alchemy of the textures, to take sometimes diverted roads to invent the volume, to know that light will play its dreamlike score... Finally, gradually out of the wall, give to the eyes the opportunity to lose themselves to infinity in the material and feel in the heart of the sensitivity of the canvas. Her creations are so many emotions, different looks on life.