Stéphane Pannetier Le Hénaff
Painter
About the artist
Stéphane Pannetier Le Hénaff is a figurative painter who was born in Avranches, and now resides in Fleury-sur-Orne, France. He specializes in creating and commissioning portraits from live models, graphite drawings and Hahnemühle FINE ART PRINT. A former student of the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, the Barcelona Academy of Art, and the German Academy of Art, he has been exhibiting his work since 2015. He has been affiliated with Urssaf since 2019 and has been represented by TOOLIP ART GALLERY since February 2025. His current projects include two series: one titled “Wild Flowers,” which utilizes graphite and inks, and the other, “The Saga of Pandora’s Box,” which explores spherical perspective with transitional tonality in oil.
“It is through experience that science and art advance among humanity.” Aristote
To Stéphane Pannetier Le Hénaff, the Pandora’s Box Saga and Wild Flowers are frequent subjects. The Pandora’s Box Saga is a painting group as matriochka composed of twelve paintings, each interpreting a scourge of humanity, each stacking in the next, the more important the scourge, the smaller the format of the work, conversely the lighter the scourge, the larger the format of the painting and encompassing the previous scourges. This series therefore ends with “Hope” opus 1, 30 x 40 cm, encompassed by the following “Death” opus 2 56 x 56 cm, encompassed by “Madness” 61 x 85 cm, until the last scourge which is “Vice” 4 x 7 m. The subject is the subject, for Stéphane everything is however a way of painting nature, nature being in movement. He tends to paint a moment that flows, hence the use of spherical perspective with transient tonality, which synthesizes a moment by the superposition of a multiple point of view proportional to a subject in movement, from photography, scan, or even from a live model in a equal distance relationship.
The Wild Flowers Saga on the other hand relies on a poetic femininity in a semi-figurative way with graphite drawing and watercolor inks with classical perspective.
