artist/ H-BOTQUELEN
France
Through her art, Jacqueline H-Botquelen acts as an archaeologist of the human psyche, her creations seem to have been unearthed or recovered from some distant place in the artist’s unconscious.
It’s as if each work of art has had a life of its own, transcended by the artist’s research into the mediums used. Jacqueline H-Botquelen achieves a suspended time in reference to our memories.
“Like the French philosopher and art critic, Louis Marin proposed in 1989, the storia occurs in modern representation, from the articulation between reflexive opacity and transitive transparency. JHB oscillates effortlessly between them with graceful proficiency. In a pilgrimage through the opacity of memory, these mysterious fragments of consciousness become metaphors of the path Botquelen follows; it is a search for the ultimate essence of her art, materialized in the sophisticated manipulation of millenarian materials in an attempt to resist fading into oblivion.” Veronica Cuomo, Curator (Art-Essay on Jacqueline H-Botquelen’s artwork).
The central theme of Jacqueline H-Botquelen’s artistic research is Permanence and Fragility. In her artistic series, she creates a recurring dialogue between figurative and abstract in her paintings, collages and sculptures.
Jacqueline H-Botquelen is a Franco-Swiss multi-talented Artist whose textured, weathered works seem shaped by time.
Jacqueline H-Botquelen draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including our collective unconscious, mythology and our roots. The artist offers a fresh perspective on these themes, infusing them with a contemporary feel. Her work is about our world and our humanity.
Painting, sculpture, metal, glass, paper… Jacqueline H-Botquelen uses all these techniques and in particular the very demanding work with glass paste, After 20 years of passion for this versatile medium, in tune with her creative instincts, the Artist continues her investigations.
Jacqueline H-Botquelen is well represented on the Swiss and American markets.
Her work is part of numerous international private collections, including the European Museum of Modern Glass in Rödental, Germany, the Stourbridge Glass Museum in Wordsley, England, and the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, USA.
The artist has been working with Habatat Gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan, for ten years, and joined Art Trope Gallery in 2024.
