Proud to present:
The artist Joanna Blanquart White aka NANA was born in 1938, in London within the sound of 'Bow Bells' from the church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London.
In 2012, first exhibit of her Chic Pop Art MM Collages, was received with a warm welcome.There she made a smashing debut selling her originals and limited edition reproductions, at la Galerie Patrick Gutknecht in the old town of Geneva.
Over a span of 60 years she has achieved a collection of over fifty Original collages of the iconic Marilyn Monroe.
Although she never thought of herself as being an artist. She uses MM as her pallet of rainbow, her paint brush, she cuts and pastes, she tiles and mirrors, going from pop art out of the box, to flowerful colours with Georgia O Keef and back to black and chic white.
Modern or Vintage; Movie of the 50s.
Really "C'est l'époque"
She draws for us her own vision of the different stages and aspects of the stars life, of that time showing her; naked, femme fatal, her inner child, her incredible and tragic destiny.
With humorous and enchanting titles such as "To Bed Or Not To Bed" "Dancing Back To Back" "Sois Belle Et Tais Toi" "The Princess & The Showboys" "Missing Screw"
Joanna manages to captivate and translate the essence of her different pieces.
NANA inspired by her own field of life, full of adventures, at the age of five during the war she was living on the farm befriending the Italian prisoners of war, then Deejaying Rock & Roll records in the first Rock & Roll club in Exeter set in the cave of her mother's house, later going on as a mother of three hitchhiking her way from the south of France to the coast of |California and now Geneva.
Gypsy hearted nomad from the hippy era ?
She always dreams of her caravan and of living on a little plot of land with a spring, she will tell you, I am not a Marilyn groopie, To me she represents all women and I want to paint "Herstory"
What we can say about NANA, is that, she is a genuine artist, with something to share,
with a wink of the eye she made a choice to share through Collage the ever Iconic MM
Enjoy!