Anne-Marie RUGGERI was born in the Ain (a French department) in 1948.
She is an autodidact oil painter. Passion is the starting point of her work. Later, she has refocused on the pastel chalk technique. Since 1989, her permanent or punctual exhibitions in more than 20 art galleries in France and abroad have settled her activity as professional painting. In her atelier-gallery in Bonnieux (Vaucluse), Anne-Marie receives her collectors and friends from the five continents.

Technique used by exigent and wilful painters, pastel painting has set up Anne-Marie Ruggeri as a referent of Provencal Figurative Art. There are neither easy effects in her work nor flattering "gesture". In order to keep the notion of mystery, she breaks trough the subject so as to merge with it and tends to integrate and reproduce an emotive process through her paintings. Emotion acts like a wave which submerges the painter and the subject so that they become one. Besides, Anne-Marie does not position as the centre but more precisely as the tool or the attentive vector of a creative process.
Why so much humility at the disposal of her art?
Here is her answer: ? A work can't be ? good ? only because I made it, but sometimes it occurs that while I am doing it, it makes me reach and build the best of myself ?.
Reported by Philippe Janin, translated by Storiart.