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winner of the second prize Peintres dans la Rue, Coutances, Normandy, France  (2019)

contact: dominique@zebras54.fr     

I work  mainly in watercolors, ink  and pencil.

translation of an article by Ouest France Coutances, June 2020

The original use of this Coutances shop window as a driving school is long gone.  Dominique Hoffman, having lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for twenty-five years, arrived in Coutances in 2017.

"In Northern Ireland, I ran a small community gallery for a year. I had to leave Belfast because of Brexit. Coutances and the surrounding area remind me of Ireland: the greenness of the fields, the sea, the small fields, the stone walls... "

The artist has been a watercolourist for ten years, and her small notebooks are full of colourful local scenes painting in Antwerp blue or colourful watercolours. Dominique is a multifaceted artist who has also written a novel: Bohemian Tales, which is set in Czechia in 1968.  She decided to display her work in the window of her flat, which looks out onto the street. Passers-by stop, especially those coming home from the nearby bar and the local young people. "My small, unpretentious exhibition brightens up the street. I practice this French way of life.  Last year, I participated in the 'Peintres dans la rue" painting competition"

 Dominique, who won second prize in the oil painting category, says "And so I discovered this little town" She's a captivating artist, and her watercolours are so wonderfully colourful.

Art en Vitrine 6 and 8, rue des Halles in Coutances. June 2020