Biography
Geneviève Seillé (b. France 1951) studied psychology at Toulouse University and moved to England in 1974 and lived there for 20 years. She studied fine art at Stafford College and Wolverhampton Polytechnic, graduating in 1981. She now lives and works in the South West of France. Her artistic work is painting, collage as well as writing. She has recalled that as a child she revelled in the sound of the quill soaked in the inkwell and then its progress on paper which has inspired what she calls her 'calligraphic landscapes'. In 1995 Seillé took a new step by conceiving her own words, her 'dense signs' which she incorporated into her work, which has an obsessive, talismanic quality. Seillé works on rough paper and using a variety of media, like wooden boxes, she applies these in layers onto, and into, a surface. Her work is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead; Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archives of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Florida and MacArthur Foundation, USA.
