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Anne-Lan is a French artist.

Biography
Born in 1943 in Corrèze, Anne-Lan is the daughter of doctors practicing in Perpezac-le-Blanc, and she has maintained a deep connection to her roots. She lived in Paris for fifty years, building her life as an artist, but often visited Brive, where she had her summer studio. Now, she resides there permanently.

Artistic Career Silk Painting
Since 1978, she has participated in group exhibitions in Paris and abroad. Later, she held personal exhibitions at the Museums of Brive, Tulle, Biarritz, and in Paris on the theme of the "Five Senses," followed by an exhibition in Gabon. In 1997, she presented her exhibition "L’Invitation au Voyage" in Paris, Venice, and at the "Museum of the History of the City of Shanghai," sponsored by UNESCO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As a specialist in silk painting, she was invited to the first World Congress of Silk Painting in Washington. She created large works on mythological or poetic themes and exhibited them in various cultural events, including several Parisian town halls (4th, 16th, 9th), the Ministry of Finance at Bercy, and in castles and abbeys.

Various Forms of Art
Starting in 1988, she incorporated different forms of art into her paintings, such as poetry, music, dance, and theater. In 2001, she introduced sciences when she celebrated the entry into the third millennium with "Apollo and the Muses" in Paris at the 9th district town hall and later in Brive. Twenty-eight artistic or scientific events around her works followed, sponsored by UNESCO. Simultaneously, reproductions of her paintings appeared in various publications, including "Il sofa delle fusa, accadelici raccontano i loro gatti."

Art and Sciences
With the support of the association Récréasciences CCSTI Limousin, she expanded this initiative to the entire Limousin region. Starting in 2007, the three departments supported "Arts and Sciences in Limousin, Crossed Views of Nature and Culture."

In 2015, Anne-Lan presented an exhibition at the General Council of Corrèze in honor of J.-H. Fabre, titled "A History of Silk: Fabre and Pasteur at the Bedside of the Silkworm." Many cities in the region participated, including the town hall of Aubusson.

In 2016, she exhibited her paintings in China during the "International Silk Road Art Festival in Dunhuang."

In 2017, Anne-Lan highlighted Maria Sibylla Merian, a famous painter and entomologist who disappeared in 1717 and is considered the mother of Ecology.

In 2018, several exhibitions around the scientific woman artist Jeanne Villepreux-Power took place in Corrèze for the 200th anniversary of her marriage to James Power.

In 2019, two exhibitions in Tulle and Brive were dedicated to Alexander von Humboldt, a precursor of ecology and a "genius of all knowledge."

In 2020, Anne-Lan held a personal exhibition at the St. Libérale Chapel in Brive, presenting a retrospective of 40 years of silk painting. The publication of a book titled "Une vie en soie" recounts her entire career.

Awards
Anne-Lan was appointed Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the Ministry of Culture for silk painting in 2015. She is also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and participated for 20 years in the Salon Comparaisons and the Salon des Indépendants. Among her numerous awards are the Gold Medal of the International Festival of Osaka, Silver Medal of the Kyoto Museum, Gold Medal of the International Painting and Calligraphy Salon of Shanghai, Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris, and the Grand Vermeil Medal "Arts Sciences et Lettres."