I’m Amandine, a French artist with many passions, an idealist, and a dreamer. My mission is to bring beauty and reconnection into your life through art.
My artistic world is feminine, fluid, and tropical 💦🌸🌙
My artistic practices include: bookbinding and crafting notebooks with tropical Polynesian fabrics, painting the ocean, illustrating coloring books that celebrate femininity and flowers, creating feminist mixed-media artworks, sewing dresses and bags with tropical motifs, and making everyday objects a little more magical.
I am passionate about: flowers – especially frangipani trees – the beauty found in the smallest details, colors, tropical vegetation, the turquoise blue of lagoons, sensual textures, meditative moments of creation, the ocean, surfing and outrigger canoeing, Polynesian culture, spirituality, travel, and meeting new people.
I lived in French Polynesia for over 20 years, including 14 years in Tahiti. I am deeply grateful for what Tahiti has given me, both in my art and in my life.
Locations: Tahiti, Biarritz.
I invite you to visit my shop to discover my art currently for sale.
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A bit of my story:
Living since 2005 in the South Pacific and 2011 in French Polynesia, I discovered many islands of the Pacific during all these years. My interest and my love of art, culture and the people of the Pacific, it is in Tahiti that I settled to develop first an online shop of Marquisian crafts (called Hinanui Polynesian Art).
My many trips have developed my desire to keep them on paper and I have made several travel books.
The energy of creativity present in Polynesia deeply reconnected me with my artistic side. I created jewelry in Tahitian pearls and painted tapa parallel with my shop.
I have since expanded to painting on a variety of surfaces—including wood, canvas, *tapa*, coconut fiber, and reclaimed materials—focusing primarily on mandalas and themes inspired by the ocean and tropical nature.