Collection: véronique dorey

Véronique Dorey was born in 1963, she lives and works in Paris. She published her first stories at the end of the 1980s in the magazine Métal Hurlant, before beginning a career as a colorist for comics. Thanks to a first exhibition with the Arts Factory gallery in 2005, her meticulous acrylics on paper finally left the studio, revealing diabolical precision works.

In 1995, Véronique Dorey created a series of paintings inspired by nostalgia for the toys of her childhood, followed in the mid-2000s by the slightly neurotic couples of the series A time for love. Between 2011 and 2012, her Bestiaire enchanté  featured evanescent nymphets, taming animals and chimerical creatures in a magical Eden garden. In 2016 and 2017, she sensitively illustrated Quatre cœurs imparfaits and La science des cauchemars, two short stories by Véronique Ovaldé published by Thierry Magnier.

With Der Wald, Véronique Dorey created in 2020 a breathtaking suite of graphite drawings. Dark and disturbing, her paper forest evokes a no man's land on the borders of the Rhineland, haunted by adolescents looking for escape from their daily lives. These different series were regularly presented by the Arts Factory gallery, then at the Halle Saint-Pierre Museum via the magazine HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture. They were brought together in 2023 by Cernunnos Editions in a sumptuous monograph.

photo credit : nouxe productions