Isabelle Hennessy, Atlantique, Oil On Panel

Even as a child, Isabelle Hennessy loved to draw. Her maternal grandfather, the painter Olivier Flornoy, winner of the Prix de Rome, was a source of admiration for her. Not daring to voice her desire to become a painter, she worked as a Red Cross nurse on missions around the world for 12 years. She then enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying in Jean Leduc’s studio from 1988 to 1993, before joining Mac Avoy’s studio.

Isabelle Hennessy received first prize at the Salon des Peintres in Paris’s 3rd arrondissement in 1991 and held a solo exhibition at the town hall there two years later. The Friends of the Saint-Calais Museum awarded her first prize at the Salon des Arts in 2012. Her second solo exhibition took place in 2014 at the Galerie Bansart, followed by another in 2017. She received the jury’s special prize in Poncé-sur-le-Loir during the Maxime Maufra Painters’ Day in 2018. In 2019, she participated in the diocesan exhibition “Sainte-Geneviève, Patron Saint of Paris,” and in 2020, in the group exhibition “Petits Formats” at the Petite Galerie on Rue de Seine in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.

Isabelle Hennessy continues to participate in art fairs and exhibitions, and creates large-scale sets for interiors, events, and plays. She exhibits annually at the Galerie Michael Lonsdale on Rue de Bourgogne in Paris.