Paris Sketchbook

Fabrice Moireau, born in 1962, is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts appliqués et des métiers d’Art (National School of Applied Arts and Crafts). Inspired by his many travels, he creates sketchbooks that are both cultural and ethnographic testimonials. Passionate about architecture, gardens, and nature, he uses watercolors to capture the subtlety of light and the atmosphere of streets and landscapes.

His career took shape during his studies, where he excelled in observational drawing and trained as a stand designer/set designer, before creating his first travel journals for the Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival. His approach quickly attracted attention, and his sketchbooks led to commissions for Vuitton and then Éditions du Pacifique, with whom he produced more than 35 art books devoted to cities and regions around the world, from Paris to New York, Lisbon to Provence.

Contemplative, Fabrice Moireau paints in situ, sometimes sitting for hours on a simple fishing stool, capturing the light, framing and details with precision. His works have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, about one per year, and reflect a sensitive and poetic view of the world.

Fabrice Moireau is the author of the following books published by Éditions du Pacifique: Berlin Sketchbook, Bretagne Sketchbook, Paris Sketchbook, Corse Sketchbook, Florence Sketchbook, Gardens de Paris Aquarelles, Lisbonne Sketchbook, and Normandie Sketchbook.

Mary Kelly is Travel Editor at the International Herald Tribune, where she launched the dedicated section. She has lived abroad for over fourteen years, in Geneva, Nice, Ouagadougou, Cairo, and now Paris. Before settling in France, she was editor-in-chief of Egypt’s leading English-language magazine, Egypt Today, for over seven years.

An American visual artist, she studied fine arts and music at the College of Saint Teresa (Minnesota), then arts and aesthetics at the Pius XII Institute in Florence, before graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London in 1970. Active in London since the late 1960s as an artist, teacher, curator, editor, and writer, she developed a body of work influenced by the rise of feminism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and Marxist feminist analysis of the sexual division of labor.

Close to the History Group collective, alongside Juliet Mitchell and Laura Mulvey in particular, Mary Kelly’s work questions the social construction of femininity and the dynamics of domestic work. Influenced by minimalism and conceptual art, she participated in socially engaged projects such as Nightcleaners (1970-1975), an iconic documentary film about the mobilization of cleaning women in the United Kingdom.

She is the author of Paris Sketchbook, published by Éditions du Pacifique.