THE TEACHERS OF LA GRANDE CHAUMIÈRE

Sandra Laplace-Claverie

A graduate of ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) with a degree in printmaking, Sandra has been teaching visual arts ever since and has continued to work from life. She regularly exhibits her drawings, prints, and paintings.

Jérôme Quebre

A 1997 graduate of ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris, Jérôme received a grant from the Institut de France at the Fondation Dufraine in Val-d'Oise in 2004, was awarded the Perrot Prize for Drawing in 1997, and in 2006 received the prestigious Frédéric de Carfort Prize for Painting from the Fondation de France.

After receiving a classical education at the School of Fine Arts in Caracas, Venezuela, Enrique went on to take courses in printmaking and then in figure drawing.
He then went to Florence, Italy, to study 15th-century Florentine painting techniques.

Enrique teaches painting techniques at the Academy.

Lucy Doherty

Trained at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts and a graduate of the École Olivier de Serres, the École Estienne, and Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Lucy is an artist, a scientific illustrator, and a professor of drawing and applied arts at various institutions of higher education. 

A finalist for the Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize in 2023, she regularly creates illustrations for the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History and for neurological research on dreams conducted in the Sleep Disorders Department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.

Guillaume Henrich

Trained in art direction at Penninghen and later in academic painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, Guillaume has mastered all approaches to observational and imaginative drawing across various fields of visual creation. He taught at the Ateliers d’Art Réaliste in Barcelona to professionals from various fields of drawing and color, and then joined the Academy to teach academic drawing from live models.

Francis Buchet

Trained at the Académie Charpentier, the CFT des Gobelins, then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Paris Academy of Arts in the morphology department, Francis Buchet teaches morphology using a drawing board, aided by his trusty colleague, the skeleton!