Young Laurence spends her time drawing on scraps of paper, table corners and going even at the age of 12 years to paint for her college, a fresco of a reproduction of Picasso. Her teachers realize that she has great facilities to reproduce images and push her to integrate a graphic art school in Bordeaux Toulouse Lautrec (1983), . After graduation, she decided to go to Paris and working time as a graphic designer. She quickly realizes that she is not made ​​for life in an office and the neon light depression.
Self-taught artist
Self-taught artist, she has a soul that makes traveler avid sun and distant horizons. She wants to travel over the world. During ten years, she puts her suitcases here and there, and his many travels and meetings, she finds her inspirations. She wants to tread this land of freedom. Its primary objective is to discover America. Laurence first go to Martinique where she joined a team at Geremy Obdet, advertising agency. Again, work in office stifles her, two mythical continents and hundreds of islands are at hand. Backpack made ​​passport and visas in hand, she embarks on a sailing towards South America. _
This is the beginning of a new adventure and discover a new passion: sailing. She landed on the island of Margarita, she later joined the continent and adventure bus, taxis, horse and hitchhiking from Guyana to Venezuela up to the Andes in Colombia. Back in Martinique, she works as a team member and hostess for yacht charter companies. This is an opportunity for Laurence to explore each island of the archipelago and enjoy his days off to find those that are not part of her routes.
His wanderings , Laurence takes personal enrichment and a new philosophy of life . It must be said that during this period , meetings with people from all backgrounds and all walks of life are many, and if Laurence did not shine in foreign languages ​​during his schooling , she quickly mastered the Spanish, English, Creole and its small French and Anglo-Saxon variants.Linguistic allows her to accept a new job for a year, as an interpreter and hostess for a particular wealthy American business man of the island of St. Lucia. Always eager to discover more , Laurence jumps at the chance when she encounters during a yacht race for Antigua regata a Bordeaux crew Rocco .The latter deposit in Saint Martin , where she worked as a bartender for a few months " bar of the sea" in Marigot where she met her American boyfriend "Jimbo" , they both open their own bar Tex Mex restaurant , the " Jimbo Lolo " in Grand Case, who disapered after the Hurricane Luis, St Martin, St Maarten September 1995 .
It was during this experience that Laurence gets back with her pencils and brushes to make herself decorating the restaurant and create their logo , menus and hand painted T-shirts .....A Friend of her and client of the restaurant "Vitoria" artist painter former art teacher in Chicago will give another meaning to her life.
Vitoria taught her new bases and different techniques to develop her creativity and also trust in her talent. Oil, pastel , watercolor, gouache... She is definitively determine to use acrylic painting more in adequation with her sensibility, Laurence is ready now to show her art and sell it.
It is time for her to regain his luggage and go on new adventures leaving his companion more careerist managing their business that runs perfectly.The urge to go back to school life and the hasard of a darts shot on a giant map of the world will decide hes fate. The arrow is lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands, never mind that it takes up the challenge , but on one condition : across all countries in between.
Crossing states
Laurence buys a van in Florida and found by chance an old friend Toni working on Miami Beach. Seduced by hes travel plans , she decides to follow Laurence, leaves her job and quickly takes off some trinkets . Together , they go through eleven states through the New Mexico they love more than anything. Housed at the inhabitant in the course of their meetings, they spend several months to discover the continent that had done so much dream to Laurence .
The discovery of the new world and its wide open spaces give birth to a book much later. Through his encounters, one with a wildly friendly artist the lead in the world of toons in Los Angeles. This unique experience led her to work with a designer from Warner Bros. She also sell some and painted postcards on Ocean Drive to get some money. Unfortunately she will never get to Hawai, an event forced her to return to France and must abandon her van to hes friends who will care until she returns to pick a year later. Time is happening and we must start to work back on the Ile Saint Martinoise , Laurence opened a second restaurant in Grand Case " lez arts café " which became his first gallery .All of her creations to sell , Laurence gains confidence and maturity .
A happy event happens, it is the time of pregnancy, the time to be a mom . This is the time to take a vacation and why not Mexico !
New ideas germinate in her head, her son Nikita is born and Laurence embarks on the creation of "POSTER", an artistic and commercial composition featuring the best entertainment and shopping on the island, a great success.
1995, Nikita has a year, time of return to his native region in France, she returned to raise her child alone. If the time of the adventure is temporarily abandoned, a new life awaits Laurence Perin, and even if her desire for freedom and independence remains intact, she took the path of stability to restore the balance of her life Mom . Laurence tries POSTER in Lacanau, then display "the best of Bordeaux", some logos: one for the restaurant "Le nulle part ailleurs" from the famous socker players Zidane and Dugarry."
"These are my zebras that made me live from my art for a long time."
This is where Laurence knows a real success with her famous paintings of animals , " Zebras ". For years, she will sell hundreds of them to professionals at the first European trade show on the "Maison & Objet" in PARIS. Bois et chiffon, Roche Bobois were her most important clients, before they started ordering copy paintigs in China.
A blessing in disguise
She uses her knowledge and energy to get a studio down town Bordeaux to create tirelessly, she explores new themes on paintings starts using her hands and different tools to go from realistic paintings to abstract and a maximum of universe like if she visit a new country or a new place every time she starts a new painting.
She never gets tired of create , Laurence wants to be on everybody's house.
On the advice of her futur scientific husband , Laurence must have direct contact with customers. She decides to bring together artists within the same workshop to share a project and a common passion.
This is the birth of the " Villa Mandarine art studio and gallery " in Bordeaux in July 2005
Because she always get interested of the interior tendances. She get her color and decoration influence and know exactly what the people would love to have in their house.
because not everyone can afford a piece of art at an exorbitant price but there is an intermediate clientele who can afford a unique work for a descent price. Laurence wants to create for those people rather than give her arts to a galleries.
Different theme, different size, custom work and attractive prices (because no galleries charges), Villa Mandarine is very succesfull
"Gallery Villa Mandarine Bordeaux and Barbizon
In 2007 , Laurence opens in the forest of Fontainebleau gallery on the village of Barbizon, famous for its high school Impressionists.
She quit the gallery in 2012 to start something different and get more freedom.
The life and work of Laurence Perin
Born in Bordeaux December 20, 1966, Laurence Perin comes from a humble background where no one indulged in the fine arts. It follows a normal school, but aware from an early age she does not want to do long studies because she wants to quickly dive into the workforce and gain financial independence ...
Self-taught artist and colorist , I move in different worlds. Passionate about my work is my main activity, I enjoy every moment the chance that was given to me to live my passion. I use my knowledge and energy to create new tables tirelessly . I explore a maximum universe never get tired . Abstract or figurative, I love above all give color to my work . Each painting I imagine in my inside, sometimes it takes shape instantly , other times she stands against a wall in my studio or hanging until the day it will be totally transformed . My inspiration take birth in everything that surrounds me , , Bordeaux (wine) and my Frenchculture , my Americian dream, my travels, but also news, media, advertising images, trends and finaly,my passion for the interior decoration . I love working with materials, mix colors , overlay painting as an image on photoshop it would work .
Laurence