Those who love, appreciate and know the world of painting will find themselves most pleased with the works of Adeline CHABERT-BOUE whose skills and charcteristics make her noteworthy as both an experienced artist and as a valuable individual.

A master of patience and persistence, she has maintained her vocation without blindly tempting the spectacular, keeping her works free of the often groundless hints of conceit one finds ubiquitously portrayed in the creations of so-called contemporary masters. Impervious to compromise and flatterie Adeline CHABERT-BOUE embodies enthusiasm for work well done, absolute comprehension of motifs, boldness in ongoing research and continuous passion. Adding to this a heavy dose of sheer creativity, she is able to reach out to painting lovers of all stripes, conquering them with a talent that never mourns the past while perennially thriving through concepts overflowing with artistic perpetuity.

Adeline CHABERT-BOUE lives in Rouen near the inner boulevard still bearing traces of the city’s medieval outer walls. She studied at the regional Beaux-Arts school from 1955 to 1957 and won a First Prize for drawing in 1956. Unable to forever renounce the warm atmosphere of the school, she returned from 1979 to 1989 in order to refine her craft, which she did without losing even an iota of her personality. Among her instructors were Guy CHAPLAIN, François LASGY, Christian SAUVE, Thérèse DENIS and, most importantly, Robert SAVARY, a winner of the Grand Prix de Rome. The same SAVARY is currently the friendly and undisputed leader of a group called ATELIER ROBERT SAVARY, of which Adeline CHABERT-BOUE is an active member. Between 1986 and 1989, her regional exhibitions won her many prizes while she also participated in over 80 group shows and 23 personal ones. Thusly prolific and sucessful, she became a valued member of several well-reputed local salons such as the “Société des Artistes Indépendants Normands” (Independent Norman Artists Association), the “Atelier Normand” (Norman Workshop) and the “Palette Cantilienne”. She has also participated to several artistic live actions such as “Téléthon” (a charitable national TV show).

My first encounter with the works of Adeline CHABERT-BOUE occurred in 1983 at the “Village des Métiers” in Bas Mauny, by the River Seine. I was pleasantly surprised by the confident presentation of a series of watercolours whose simplicity highlighted the composition balance and arrangement of light harmonies in both landscapes and nudes, all of them displaying an ambiant radiance both unusual and attractive.

From that revealing and convincing first impression, I have been a witness of her artistic evolution, punctuated by the flowers of Sierville, the seascapes of the “Bolée”, the discovery of luminous pastels at the “Gourmandine” and the pursuit of the powerfully poetic and informal at the “Galerie d’Art de l’Orient”. Exhibiting at the “Maison Saint Sever” gave her the opportunity to demonstrate her more than abundant grace while another exhibition at the “Association Audace” allowed her to prove her mettle as a research painter who allows herself to be carried away by generously ardent generous tides of abstraction that somehow manage to simultaneously blend in the harmonies of the most austere realism.

André Ruellan, art critic