2024-01-28 12:41:00
The artist from Chirac received the 2023 Degas Prize, awarded by the Society of Letters, Sciences and Arts of Lozère.
Isabelle Jarousse received the Degas Prize, awarded by the Society of Letters, Sciences and Arts of Lozère. A joy for the one who left Lozère for art, and returned there through art.
A fixed idea
Isabelle Jarousse was born in Chirac, fourth of five girls, and grew up there until she was 18. Ever since she was little, she has had an obsession: she wants to study fine arts. “I always wanted to do that, but I didn’t really know what it was, because since Lozère, the Beaux-Arts seems far away… But it was a fixed idea.“An idea which was undoubtedly born when, as a child, on school benches, she appreciated these times of visual arts, these bubbles of freedom: “It was a moment that interested me, a space where I found myself“, she confides.
At the Marvejols college, meeting a drawing teacher who herself had studied Fine Arts comforted her and helped her chart the path that would take her there.
She creates her paper
Isabelle Jarousse enters the Angoulême School of Fine Arts, and graduates, and happy: “I had proven to myself that I might do it.” The pot had to be boiled, so she became a plastic arts teacher in Lyon. “Part-time. Because my idea was to devote myself to painting; that was my priority.”
In her workshop, she makes her own support, from paper pulp that comes from rags. “This material has a soft texture like cotton, a metaphor for drapery and skin; a knotty, hollow or flat matrix in which I inscribe my writing, I structure my language, I obey creation“, she confides. She traces plants, animals, human beings, dots, lines in black ink, and sometimes incorporates color.
“Crown”, by Isabelle Jarousse. DR – DR
Isabelle Jarousse regularly exhibits the fruit of her work, her “obsessive writing“, since the beginning of the 2000s. His creations have traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Paris, Lyon… They were posed once in Lozère, in the Saint-Jean chapel in his village of Chirac, in 2005 .
The Society of Letters therefore named her the winner of its 2023 Degas. “Isabelle Jarousse has created a unique style”appreciates President Jean-Marc Chevalier, satisfied that the work of a little-known woman from Lozère on her land is highlighted by this distinction.
The winners of the Degas Prize since its creation
2022, Nadia Harabasz. 2021, Christian and Gérard Clavel. 2020, Jean-David Moreau. 2019, Renaud de Laubépin and Claire de Gatelier, Josette Rouvière-Yaniv and Moshe Yaniv. 2018, Sylvain Gachet, Elisabeth Boyé and Bertrand Servières. 2017, Roger Lagrave. 2016, Olivier Poujol. 2015, Daniel Castanier. 2014, François Sastourné, Bruno Jaudon. 2013, Hubert Le Roux. 2012, Alain Tritignac.
When she learned that she was the winner of this prize, Isabelle Jarousse was surprised, not expecting it. And very happy. “The vagaries of life mean that at some point, we leave. Time passes. And now was the right time. I left Lozère for art, and it is thanks to my artistic work that I come back there“, she confided, when she had just received the famous statuette at the consular house of Mende. All that remains is to hope that she returns there with her paintings, so that the people of Lozère can discover her work.
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