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The French Watercolour Society pays tribute to the simplest artistic expression: creating with water and pigments.
Too often considered as a sketching technique, some artists knew how to reveal it in their creative impulses: Turner, Sargent, Cézanne and
even Van Gogh who called it « diabolical». Times have changed and the apparent simplicity of this medium has tempted, then converted
new schools of painting to the fougues and mysteries of this diabolical Water!
For nearly twenty years, the SFA has set itself the mission of bringing together and encouraging a panorama of French watercolourists with
diverse trends that manifest our world in the light of their paper. This panorama was built little by little with the achievements of more than
70 French watercolourists among the most representative, of all regions and of all inspirations.
The great diversity of the works of the artists of the French Watercolour Society (Société Française de l'Aquarelle) is reflected in different
contemporary trends that group them either by types of writing (trace, line and gesture, abstraction and opposite realism), or by common
universes (nature and our environment, space-time, human) … writing serving the universe and vice versa.
It is up to you to share these colors, these graphics, these materials, these forms to sharpen your emotions with the works that will be
most in harmony with your personal universes.

Alain Berne
President, SFA