Veronique Fournier-Wynne is a Connecticut portrait artist and painter of realist art.
She is originally from northern France, where her family was heavily involved in the arts. Her paternal grandmother was an impressionist and painted in the style of Monet.
When Veronique was young, her mother took her to art museums in France such as the Louvre, Chantilly, Chenonceau and Chambord where she saw the work of Nicolas Poussin, Charles Le Brun and Le Nain.
Her favorite artist is Jacques Louis David whom she discovered at the Louvre.
She takes great pleasure in striving to produce paintings and sketches that are up to the artistic standards of the great masters like Vermeer, Rembrandt, Da Vinci and Bouguereau.
Veronique has a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design and worked as a graphic designer for several years, designing custom event posters and marketing materials.
Since 2016, she has been studying the atelier style of classical realism at the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. She has been studying portrait, still life, figure drawing and painting in oils.
She learned to perfect her drawing and painting skills by using the Bargue method and the Munsell color theory.
Her instructors included Christina Mastrangelo, Steve Linberg, and Katie Engberg. She has also attended workshops by Justin Wood and Cathy Whipple.
She has shown her work regionally and won first prizes in regional shows.
Now Veronique is an instructor at the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts in Connecticut.
She is a member of the CWA (Connecticut Women Artists),
A member of IGOR (International Guild of Realism)
And a member of AAPL (American Artist Professional League)
