Jacqueline Bareille-Denat: Exhibition "45 Years of Creative Crossing"

Jacqueline BAREILLE-DENAT's solo exhibition featuring works by the 39 participants in her workshops

JACQUELINE BAREILLE-DENAT
Exhibition "45 Years of Creative Journey"
Organised by the Culture and Heritage Department in the Hall of Honor of the Saint-Girons Town Hall: From January 12 to February 9, 2026

Jacqueline Bareille-Dénat was born on August 9, 1938 in Paris (4th arrondissement).

Training in Paris: Roger PISSIS workshop (which Bernard Buffet attended among others) to prepare for entrance exams to art schools.

Accepted to the school on rue Madame (performing arts) and to the teacher training college of the Cours Normals in Paris, she chose the latter. There, she benefited from the teaching of eminent professors in each discipline and technique.

Those who have most influenced her: René-Jean CLOT teaches aesthetics, writer published by Grasset and especially Gallimard, author of nearly thirty novels, short stories, essays, plays and poetry collections, he obtained the Société des Gens de Lettres prize in 1984 and the Renaudot in 1987. "Le bleu d'outre tombe" was adapted into a film.

Roger Baron teaches drawing and human and animal anatomy, and is a sculptor and medalist at the Paris Mint. Among his works are busts of Jean Moulin and Jean Mermoz, as well as sculptures of the academician's swords of Étienne Wolff and Jean Rostand. Roland Bourigeaud teaches color and decoration; a painter, he is recognized for his work on the psychology of forms and colors.

But married to a man from Ariège in 1960, it was in the provinces that she had her first professional activity: drawing teacher at the Technical College (currently a comprehensive high school) in Mirepoix (Ariège) then Berthelot High School in Toulouse (Haute Garonne) and CET and High School in Les Mureaux and Mantes la Jolie (Yvelines) from 1969 to 1975.
After which she left the National Education system to devote herself to painting.

Painter: first exhibition in 1966 in Saverdun (Ariège) then regular exhibitions and permanent presence of his works: at the Carlos Art Gallery in Bagnères de Luchon and Toulouse, which presents Schintone, and had programmed Fernand Léger in 1979 after Jacqueline Bareille-Dénat but the death of Mrs. Robardey, the gallery owner, led to the definitive closure of the gallery.
At the Occitadelle gallery in Montségur, which exhibited, among others, Max Savy, Jean Camberoque, Mady de La Giraudière, Folon, and Lalou, until the gallery closed. In Paris, at the Liliane François gallery on Rue de Seine, then at "Naïfs du monde entier" on Rue du Pas de la Mule, at the corner of Place des Vosges. In Toulouse, at the Balder, Arthé, Art Plus, and Le Biblion galleries.
Occasional exhibitions in Nice, Cannes (Galerie du Verseau), Les Baux-de-Provence (Galerie de la Méditerranée), Les Mureaux (Yvelines) in Portet, Salies-du-Salat (Haute-Garonne) in the Aude region in Caunes-Minervois, Fanjeaux, Mayreville, and numerous exhibitions in Ariège: Foix, Mirepoix, Saint-Girons, Ax-les-Thermes, Saint-Lizier, Saverdun, Larroque-d'Olmes, Aulus, Castillon, Sentein, Balagué, Lorp-Sentaraille, Seix, Rimont, Lescure....
In Auch (Gers) in 1970 and 1971 at André Daguin's, where Jacques Dutron and Moustache bought five inks before the opening and where, for the only time, all the paintings except one were sold - the champagne offered by Laurent Perrier may have helped...!
In Tremp in Spanish Catalonia on the occasion of a twinning in 1982. Exhibitions with Mady de La Giraudière in Paris Maison des Pyrénées and at the Meudon Cultural Centre (1994).

Participation in numerous exhibitions: Peintres Pyrénéeens in Foix (Ariège) for several years and Villefranche de Rouergue (Aveyron), Salon d'aménagement des Pyrénées in St-Girons, Salon international du Pays d'Olmes in Lavelanet with D'Anty, Jean Camberoque, in Paris salon Leonard de Vinci, in Revel (Haute Garonne) with D'anty, Frédéric Mendy, Salon Ibaya in Bayonne, Zaragoza (Spain) and Talence (Gironde), in Montauban (Tarn et Garonne) the Kiwanis charity association.

Bilan de l'Art à Melun where she obtained the Silver Medal then exhibitions at the Colyseum in New York, at the Palais des Congrès du Québec in Montreal and in Ottawa.

Continuing education. Through reading the magazines to which she subscribes: "Beaux-Arts", "Connaissance des Arts", "Art Déco", "Campagne déco", "Elle Déco" and also "La gazette Douot", Sotheby's publications, and the approximately three hundred art books in her library made available to her students.

Other professional experiences:
- Creation of ceramic decorations at Edith Clochey in Fangeaux (Aude) in the 1970s and Elza Jodra in Martres-Tolosane (Haute-Garonne) in the 2000s.
- Posters and theatre sets for the Avant Quart company of Lézignan-Corbières: Mokattam, Enovalik the Eskimo, Rimbaud, The Crystal Brick For the Le quai de la fabrique company of Caunes-Minervois (Aude): (more than 700 performances and the silk paintings are still impeccable).
- Posters for various events.
- Tapestries made by Karine Pinet, a tapestry weaver trained at the Aubusson school.
- Record sleeves of the Occitan singer Rosine de Peire.

Opening a painting workshop, she teaches drawing and painting: ink, charcoal, pastel, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, oil, reverse glass, in Mirepoix in 1976 then in Saint-Girons in 1980 and which continues with nearly fifty students who exhibit every two years in Saint-Lizier then Balagué and in 1999 in Toulouse at the "Art Plus" gallery.
Supervision of painting workshops for the training of educators in Centres and in this context in Salies du Salat, creation, under his direction, of a fresco in the stairwell by the educators of Bosquet, Accommodation Centre for Disabled People.
The mural in the Camille Claudel Pavilion, commissioned by the departmental architect at the Ariège Couserans Hospital Center in Saint-Lizier, covers the exterior wall of the elevator shaft. To create the mural, she enlisted two muralists from Lyon: Jean-Baptiste Cleyet and Isabelle Peugnet.
The Portfolio "About the 750th anniversary of the burning of Montségur" produced by Georges Serrus of the Occitadelle including: eight paintings by Mady de La Giraudière, four by Jacqueline Bareille-Dénat, one by Jean Camberoque and the song "Montségur" by Claude Marti in Languedocian and French.
The story: Jacqueline Bareille-Dénat painted the wooden horse carousel in Mirepoix several times; when a horse escaped from the carousel, she realized that this series of paintings told a story and she decided to write the adventure of this horse and a little boy who set off in search of the "Land of the Blue Star".

Jacqueline Bareille-Denat and 39 artists:
Henry Anel “The Flight of the Battered Woman” 2022
acrylic on canvas 81 x 64

ANEL Camille “Holiday Landscape (award-winning)”
gouache on paper 32 x 24

ANEL Marie-Jo “The 4 Senses” 2023
acrylic on canvas 40 x 40

ANEL Marjorie “Les Iris” 1997
oil on canvas 41 x 27

ANOUILH Isabelle “The Dancer” 2005
pastel on paper 49 x 39.5

ASSOULANT Sylvie “Solitude” 2025
oil on canvas 30 x 40

BORDES Henriette “The Champs de Mars Saint-Girons” 2007
acrylic on canvas 73 x 60

+ CHAYRON Émilie “Houses of Balagué” 2024
oil on canvas 40 x 50

CHARTIER Geneviève “The Acrobats” 2022
acrylic and collage 53 x 42

CHARTIER Manon “Moonlight Reverie” 2025
acrylic on paper 20 x 29

DEDIEU Marcy “Saint-Lizier Winter Light” 2006
acrylic on canvas 46 x 34

+ DE GUEMBECKER Catherine “The Bride” 2024
installation chapel at Combelongue Abbey 3m x 3m

Corinne de Verbizier, "Saint-Lizier Le Pont", 2023
oil on canvas 80 x 40

DUNGLAS Évelyne “A Dream” 1983
pastel on velvet paper 75 x 53

FINEL Marie Michelle “Saint-Lizier Café Terrace” 2021
gouache on paper 35 x 37

GOBBO Stéphanie “Fallen from the Sky” 2025
acrylic on paper 35 x 28

GOGUILLOT Jean Paul “The Boy on the Shores of the Port” 2025
freely inspired by Henriette GUDIN
acrylic on canvas 50 x 70

GRABIÉ Colette “The Lake of Bethmale” 2024
pastel on paper 24 x 30

GUY Lolita “La Bethmalaise”
gouache on paper 65 x 45
HÉLIE Catherine “Bleu Chocolat” 2024
acrylic and collage 58 x 79

HIROUX Jeanne “Still Life” 2024
oil on canvas 33 x 41

HONEGGER Isabelle “Gannets of Northern Gannets (Quebec)” 2002
acrylic on canvas 55 x 46

LAFFORGUE Marie Claude “The Chalet (Chiaroscuro)” 2025
acrylic on canvas 60 x 45

LAGARDE Françoise “A House in the Night” 2024
oil on canvas 60 x 50

+ LAPEYRE Janine “Voyage” 2015
gouache on paper 72 x 84

LARIVE Anne “Quelques Fruits” 2023
pastel on velvet paper 43 x 63

LÉBÉ Simone “Desert” 2023
oil on canvas 45 x 26

NADAL Dominique “Balagué” 2018
acrylic on canvas 37.6 x 49.7

PASSAL Émilie “The Shepherd” 1992
oil on canvas 16 x 21.5

PASSAL Monique “Visage Bleu (blues)” 1997
mounted cardboard 33 x 24

PEDOUSSAT Marie Cathy “At Daybreak” 1984
oil on canvas 47 x 56

PEREZ Marie Jo “The Jam Pot” 2022
acrylic on canvas 80 x 40

PLANTADE Maryse “Lola” 2025
watercolor on paper 22 x 29

REASER Jasmine "The Squirrel" 2021
acrylic on canvas 30 x 40

RIETBROEK Solange “The Rooster” 2025
gouache 42 x 52

RIEU Joseph-Émile “Saint-Lizier Bishops' Palace” 2017
oil on canvas / knife painting

RIEU Marie Thérèse “The Skaters of Lake Bethmale” 2023
acrylic and collage on paper 47 x 73

SANGÈS Jacqueline “Balagé dans la mist” 2023
acrylic on paper 40 x 50

VIGNOLES Marie Christine “Clair Obscur” 2024
acrylic on canvas 31 x 19

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