Séverine de La Chapelle

Séverine de La Chapelle is originally from Bordeaux, France. As a child, she would create art with her grandmother, which instilled in her passion for the touch of beautiful materials and fabrics at a young age.

In 1995, she enrolled in the École Blot, in Reims, a school of decorative arts, learning many skills she uses today. Moving to Singapore in 2005 expanded Séverine’s artistic horizons. She began studying with a Japanese artist, Maya Takashi, who instantly identified synergies with Séverine’s style and East Asian artistic traditions. Séverine continues to be inspired by traditional and contemporary Asian art, such as the Dansaekhwa artistic movement. In 2016, the family left Singapore for Portugal.

During the pandemic, Séverine rekindled her love of paper as both a support and medium in art. She explored different ways to give texture and relief to paper, with mediums such as acrylic paint, gold leaf, golden wax, and watercolour. Tools in hand, she created her own paper carving technique using thick pure cotton paper and different scalpel blades. All of her work is now created using that technique.