Dominique Bachelet
Dominique Bachelet has always loved the quote by Nikos Kazantzakis: "You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go." Painting is her escape from global problems. Birds, squirrels, frogs, flowers and familiar landscapes inspire Dominique to leave the challenging realities of her scientific work and enjoy the beauty and lightness of the natural world. Sharing those feelings through her paintings, she tried to emulate Maya Angelou’s advice “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”was born and raised in northern France. Her maternal great grandfather was an “artiste peintre” who died at the turn of the 20th century. Some of his paintings are still hanging in the museum of her home town Arras. Her father, while a mechanic by training, could draw and paint very well. He encouraged her early on to draw animals from the farm and pastoral landscapes around his native village.
Dominique is a watercolor artist born and raised in northern France. Dominique came to the US in August 1979 and has lived in West Virginia, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington state. She was drawing at a young age and continued to do so sporadically as well as taking a few art classes wherever she lived. In 2000 she moved to Olympia, WA, where she met watercolor artist and teacher Melodi Cottongim who encouraged her to pursue watercolor painting. Dominique has been painting as a break from her research job simulating the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. As Rachel Carson once said, “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”. She is a member of the Oregon Watercolor Society, the Corvallis Arts Center and the Corvallis Art Guild.
Dominique is a watercolor artist born and raised in northern France. Dominique came to the US in August 1979 and has lived in West Virginia, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington state. She was drawing at a young age and continued to do so sporadically as well as taking a few art classes wherever she lived. In 2000 she moved to Olympia, WA, where she met watercolor artist and teacher Melodi Cottongim who encouraged her to pursue watercolor painting. Dominique has been painting as a break from her research job simulating the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. As Rachel Carson once said, “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”. She is a member of the Oregon Watercolor Society, the Corvallis Arts Center and the Corvallis Art Guild.
