Karin Bain

Karin Bain is an artist from Ghent in Flanders, Belgium. She studied visual arts and 3 D design in Ghent, Brussels and the UK. She is a ceramicist, print maker, watercolor artist and interior designer. She taught art at the International School of Geneva and speaks Dutch, English, and French. After retiring she studied Modern Applied Psychology and Life Coaching . These studies have helped Karin both in her artistic direction and in helping budding artists.

Recurring themes emerge in her work.
The beauty of the everyday, the moment.
Karin Bain is an artist who reveals the beauty of everyday life, of materials, forms, and colors. In her studio in the Brionnais region, all the arts converse, allowing her to approach the existence of beings and things. Animals, flowers, fossils, but also everyday tableware.  Everything finds its place in her open and gentle, delicate and benevolent universe. Her lines are bold, capturing the unique character of each being and each thing. In her artworks and in the classes she teaches, art animates and life infuses matter.

The movement
She makes her colours dance, and her lines are curves of life that are equally appreciated in her paintings and ceramics. Her creations are warm and radiant. She is an artist of attention, caring for everyday objects, some broken, others neglected. Antique dishes, kitchen utensils, doorknobs, wooden panels; everything is reborn in her eyes with expressions full of vitality.

The generosity
For Karin Bain, art is therefore vibrant and generous. Creation is first and foremost a process of research, an approach involving experimentation, surprises, and unexpected outcomes. The final creation, a ceramic piece, a painting, or even a fabric print, then reveals the expressed energy and its beauty.

Barnaby Bain

Born in Chichester, England, in 1964, Barnaby Bain is a design teacher and artist with an international career spanning the UK, Bermuda, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. After studying at Portsmouth College of Art, Cardiff art school and the London College of Furniture, he went on to teach design at the International School of Geneva. Today, he divides his time between the Pays de Gex and Amanzé in Saône-et-Loire, where he draws inspiration from the rural French landscape.

Barnaby’s artwork reflects both his design background and his deep connection to nature. Influenced by Turner and Nicolas de Staël, his acrylic paintings and digital works celebrate the geometry, rhythm, and color of the Charolais-Brionnais countryside. Whether painting ‘en plein air’ or sketching digitally with Brushes on his iPad, he strives to express the emotional vitality of local farm building architecture and landscapes, all through a vivid, Fauvist-inspired lens.