Isabelle Défayes was born in Switzerland and after training at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, she worked for several years in the hotel business and then for the International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins sans Frontières. Since 2002 she has devoted a large part of her time to painting and exhibited her work.
The space of her works is created first of all by horizontal bands, geometrical shapes or collages and then by a superimposition of colours until a balance is reached. Some of herworks have no title so viewers are free to imagine their own universe.
In recent paintings, the shapes represent landscapes, an inspiration of the places where people live, during hikes and travels.
Individual exhibitions:
2018 - Galerie Hoffstetter - Fribourg - Switzerland
2016 - Restaurant Vieux-Bois - Ecole Hôtelière de Genève
2013 - Clinica Buchinger - Marbella - Spain
2013 - Open House - Ojén - Spain
2012 - Restaurant Vieux-Bois - Ecole Hôtelière de Genève - Genève
2011 - Open House - Ojén - Spain
2010 - Festival de Arte - Marbella - Spain
2009 - Open House - Ojén - Spain
2008 - Open House - Ojén - Spain
2007 - Clinica Buchinger - Marbella - Spain
2006 - Galerie J.-J. Hofstetter - Fribourg - Switzerland
2005 - Gerber Gallery - Bâle - Switzerland
2004 - Clinica Buchinger - Marbella - Spain
Collective exhibitions:
2020 - Clinica Buchinger - Marbella - Spain
2012 - Cuatro Estaciones - Centro Cívico - Málaga - Spain
2012 - Clinica Buchinger - Marbella - Spain
2011 - IX Certamen Provincial de Artes Plásticas Málaga - Spain
2011 - Mairie de Vélez Málaga
2011 - Hotel Lario Molina - Málaga
2010 - Certamen Provincial des Arts Plastiques - Málaga
2010 - XXI Arte Malacitano 2016 - Getafe - Madrid
2009 - “Artistes Fribourgeois Contemporains” Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Fribourg
2006 - El Molino - Ojén - Spain
2004 - El Molino - Ojén - Spain
2003 - El Corte Inglés - Puerto Banus - Spain
Prize:
2011 - 1st prize - Painting competition Evaristo Guerra - Vélez Málaga - Spain
Contact
Isabelle Défayes Byrn
Tel Spain 0034 658 68 30 16
Tel Switzerland 0041 79 644 00 98