Sophie Delaunoy was born in Paris in 1958. As a child, drawing was to her a shelter during those long and dull times.
After the baccalaureate, she studies drawing with painter and architect Frédérik Davis, who used to collaborate with Le Corbusier, and also had the occasion to rub elbows with Picasso and Fernand Léger.
Later on, Sophie Delaunoy moves to Picardie and has to cope with being a mother and an executive woman at the same time while managing not to neglect painting. She develops her technique in ‘L’Île aux Peintres’. This academy, supported by Talens Labels and located in la Ferté Milon, was founded by Liliane Kerdanet and her family, with painter Robert Lapoujade as a leader.
It is in this studio that Sophie Delaunoy continues her training alongside well-known artists such as painter and architect Renaud Archambault de Beaune and painter Joël Trolliet, whose works can be seen in national museums as well as abroad. Having approached abstract art, Sophie Delaunoy takes part in the Réalités Nouvelles exhibition in 1996, then in 1997.
In the very late ‘90s, she has to suspend her occupation of painter. This is why she takes, in 2003, her brushes and colours back with even more enthusiasm, from then on devoting herself exclusively to painting.
She is now divided into two spaces, one being figurative, the other being more allusive: a work that has matured as time went by, and presented for the past few years in manifold exhibitions.
