Lucie LLONG
Sports artist
Lucie LLONG, creator, painter, illustrator, and visual artist, is a graduate in fine arts from the Sorbonne in Paris. Travel, colors, and encounters are three key elements that have shaped her artistic work.
Drawing from a young age alongside her mother Agnès, also a painter, she has always focused on representing and interpreting her surroundings in unique ways. Graduating in fine arts after a professional career in healthcare as a nurse, she made painting her life’s work in 2007. Her creative approach, marked by a highly distinctive style, offers an offbeat, timeless, and resolutely innovative vision of sports in general. Her knowledge of the human body, acquired during her years in the medical field, has served as a foundation for her artistic work and remains one of her favorite subjects today.
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Since childhood, she has maintained a special connection with rugby through many family members and her travels to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Scotland. These experiences have allowed her to explore various cultural approaches to this exceptional sport.
Drawing inspiration from her extensive travels across Europe (Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland, Malta), Latin America (Peru), Oceania (Tahiti, Easter Island), and Africa (Tunisia, Egypt), she captures the world’s nuances and contrasts using acrylic paint, watercolor, oil paint, charcoal, pastel, and natural pigments. She trained with Claude Yvel in traditional oil painting techniques (2015) and the water-based techniques of old masters (2013). At the Conservatory of Ochres and Applied Pigments, she learned to create her own paints from natural pigments.
With bold and energetic brushstrokes, Lucie LLONG captures and conveys the intensity of athletic movement, the stakes, the dynamism, and the liveliness. Action and power take center stage, color embodies energy, and just the right amount of blur conveys the raw passion caught in motion. You can almost hear the roar of the stadium.
Her signature: an original, luminous, and dynamic painting style.
Her belief: a world brought to life with color is always more beautiful, which led to the creation of her first website to showcase her work in motion. Her connection with the public began upon her return from Australia, where she had the privilege of seeing her artistic work recognized by professionals through various artistic awards.
She is also an active member and participant in associations with artistic and humanitarian missions.
She currently practices her art in Champeix, a village in the Puy-de-Dôme region of Auvergne. She draws inspiration for her depictions of wildlife and nature from her adopted region.
