This week, we paid a visit to the one and only Blandine Bardeau and sat down around a cup of tea. Blandine Bardeau is a French born multi-disciplinary artist whose work is a playful exploration of the boundaries between the figurative and the abstract. Her feminine lines and intuitive experimentations has won her recognition early on in her career including winning the Louis Vuitton Bag Design Competition at Central Saint Martins and being featured in several publications. ⁠Scroll for a wholesome conversation with our first ever Bleur artist.

What are the three things you take with you on a desert island?

Sketchbook, music, a good pillow

What is your favourite shape?

Circle

What are your favourite studio clothes?

Plumber overalls

What is your one tip from artist to artist?

Don’t listen to people too much

Where is your safe place to create?

My studio!

What is the best advice you have ever received?

I think the best advice I have ever received is to create with my heart not with my head but I can’t remember who said that to me – sorry!

What else do you love to do?

I love wholefoods cooking and I think cooking is an art as well and it really helps me to stay grounded and be healthy.

The one tool you can’t live without?

My favourite tool is a really old and cheap brush… I don’t know why, it is always the right one for some reason, for everything.

What is the most challenging part of being an artist?

The business side – knowing how to value your work, standing your ground around that and knowing when to say no and when to say yes.