De notre rencontre est née l’idée que notre peinture
puisse être mise au service du patrimoine autant que de la conception de décors inédits.
Au travers des créations de l’atelier nous cherchons à revisiter les codes des éléments décoratifs
classique avec dynamisme et inventivité pour y imprimer une marque contemporaine.
Our collaboration has inspired the idea that painting can honor artistic heritage while also creating original décors. Through the work of the Atelier, we aim to refresh the traditional codes of classic decorative elements with a touch of creativity, giving them a contemporary signature.
Celina Blundell, a Franco-British artist, grew up in a family of painters, sculptors, and decorators. After her education at French Lycées in London, Brussels, and Pondicherry, she specialized in figurative painting and the restoration of decorative art, mastering traditional gilding and lacquer techniques at some of Paris’s top decoration studios.
Throughout her training, Celina worked internationally, gaining experience in locations such as the Middle East, Russia, Cambodia, as well as Paris, London, and Florence. In 2013, she co-founded Atelier Blundell&Therrien with Christophe Therrien, while continuing to create paintings that have been showcased and sold to established collectors.
With a diploma from the Duperré National School of Applied Arts, and then from the Paris Fine Arts School in 1986, Christophe Therrien specialized in pictural and large format painting. The quality of his work is based upon an impressive mastery of draftsmanship, as well as of traditional figurative painting.
After working in the Simonini atelier, he was soon spotted by some of the best artistic institutions and renowned decoration companies. He created large scale decors for the Meriguet-Carrère studio in Paris, film sets for Thierry Flamand, monumental paintings with the artist Xavier Veilhan, as well as regularly working as first painter in the Paris Opera House.
He regularly holds exhibitions in Parisian art galleries.
Our interest in the beauty and durability of ancient techniques, through the use of natural pigments and glues, as well as mineral paints, gives our decors the atmosphere of a timeless creation.
Projects undertaken by the Atelier are first and foremost the subject of an in-depth study, with priority given to understanding and advice.
We perform a detailed survey of the project context so that we can propose the most appropriate solutions. Plans and graphic studies are created in watercolours for each of our creative proposals, because we believe that the hand’s intelligence remains unmatched.
The Atelier works in close collaboration with a team formed over the years, artists and craftsmen with exceptional know-how, whose diversity and complementarity enable us to manage large-scale projects, from preparation to completion, while committing to respecting agreed deadlines.