Carole Perret and Her Merry Nuns

April 1st (Poissons d'Avril)

Carole Perret (b. in Bern, Switzerland) lives now in Fribourg.
Graduated in Graphic Arts, she worked in advertising illustration until 1990. Since then she dedicated herself exclusively to painting.
She uses, with mastery, the old and unique technique of tempera on wood, which was used in the Middle Ages before the introduction of oil. Her painting distinctive qualities are loose, amusing, poetic and irreverent. Her favourite characters are “nuns”, superbly reproduced in a peculiar way with a mixed of angelical and wicked attitude…probably inspired by her religious childhood that was always defined as disobedient, although balanced!
She participated in exhibitions in almost all European countries, Mexico, Japan and United States.
Her work though classified as Naïf Art also includes Surrealistic lines and details.(the artist's site)