Trait pour Trait's artist

Name: Isabelle Andris
Passion: Dray horses!
Favourite technique: graphite and coloured pencils, Indian ink and acrylic.
Artistic fantasy: to create a life-size dray horse in papier mâché ;o)

My ultimate pleasure is when owners see my exhibits, recognise the horses in my drawings and look for their own.

What question am I asked most often?
Do I only draw dray horses... of course not, I draw other types of horse, but dray horses are the horses I love above all!

My exhibitions

  • Libramont, November 2006, Dray Horse's Week End.
  • Paris, Januaryi 2007, recording of the programme “Des Brides et Vous” by the Equida channel.
  • Paliseul, Augustus 2007, Forestry demonstration of "la Foire de Libramont".
  • Libramont, September 2007, 24 hours of harnessed pulling.
  • Libramont, November 2007, Dray Horse's Week End.
  • Braine-l'Alleud, September 2008, Horse's Week End.
  • Gand, January 2009, Agriflanders

Publication

  • September 2008, Brabançon, Pascal Kulscar, Editions Thelès
    Cover drawing: Isabelle Andris

Press

My training

I have always drawn, but it was just ten years ago that I learnt the technique of drawing at the Machri studios in Brussels.

Following this, I took a multi-disciplinary course at the Fine Arts Academy in Woluwé St. Pierre, where I learned to draw differently, to have another approach to composition and to the subject.

And of course, I can't overlook La Cambre, where I studied art restoration.