biography
DETAILED CREATURES OF THE NATURAL REALM PAIRED WITH FANTASTICAL SCENES OF THE IMAGINATION
HAVE CREATED A SIGNATURE STYLE.
AN OEUVRE THAT HAS BECOME WIDELY AWARDED AND THAT CAN BE FOUND IN ESTEEMED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
Cheraine Collette was born in 1993, in a forest-side town in the east of the Netherlands.
Cheraine Collette started drawing at the age of 3, the first subjects she would try to capture drawing were horses and other animals, quickly after which she would gain insights from her mother about mixing colours and how to draw in perspective by her brother.
From the age of 12, she started experimenting with one of the earliest Photoshop suites (CS1), accompanied by a digital painting tablet and brush, which was all introduced by her father. She instantly used it to paint and to layer- and manipulate her photographs.
She finished her education in Photographic Design at the Fotovakschool, the University of Applied Photography in 2015 and worked under the pseudonym of LORLEON® until early 2020, and then continued her series and works under her name of Cheraine Collette®.
Cheraine Collette’s work is dedicated to showing the constant battle between nature and humanity, the beauty and vulnerability of nature, and historic buildings.
To inspire future generations to preserve both our natural heritage and also our cultural heritage.
Her work can be summarized in three ways –
Authentic, Imaginative, and a longing for beauty.
Cheraine Collette’s work covers every aspect of photographic production, from photographing- to manipulating and digitally painting her images.
In her photography, you will often find fauna, which she has photographed in their own natural habitat, to make the audience more aware that fauna can be left in peace for the final photograph.
Essentially, she creates imaginary worlds from scratch. Composed of photographed parts of nature and locations across the globe.
AWARDS & HONOURS
Since 2019, in the course of 2 years, Cheraine Collette has received 200+ Int’l AWARDS,
AND HONOURS FROM WORLD-RENOWNED INSTITUTIONS FOR BOTH HER PHOTOGRAPHY AND FINE ART WORK.
consisting out of 1- overall winner, 8 -1st prizes, 4 – 2nd prizes, 2 – Platinum, 17 – Gold, 21 – Silver, 7 – Bronze, and 76 – honourable mention & Highly Commended in internationally acclaimed photography competitions such as the International Photography Awards (IPA), the Prix de la Photographie Paris(PX3), the Neutral Density Awards (ND), the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) and the Creative Siena Awards, and more.
200+ Int'l Awards
She published her first book ‘MARVELS’ with a multi-award-winning body of work in 2020.
Cheraine’s critically acclaimed books “Where Is Adam?” and “Marvels” have been included in the collection of the Royal National Library.
She continues her practice currently in her studio in Otterlo, the Netherlands.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Barcelona Spain, FotoNostrum Gallery
Group Exhibition December 6, 2023
2023 – Barcelona Spain, FotoNostrum Gallery
Group Exhibition 20 April – 4 May 2023
2022 – Linz Austria, Trierenberg Supercircuit Main Exhibition
Group Exhibition Winners Trierenberg SuperCircuit 5 – 20 November 2022
2022 – Paris France, Annual Paris Photo Prize Exhibition
Group Exhibition 1 – 6 November 2022
2022 – Barcelona Spain, 7th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography
Group Exhibition FotoNostrum Gallery 13 October – 30 November 2022
2022 – Siena Italy, Siena Photo Festival
Group Exhibition ‘I Wonder if You Can’ 1 October – 20 November 2022
2022 – Austria, Trierenberg Slideshow Tour through Austria
Group Exhibition Winners Trierenberg SuperCircuit 19 September – 7 October 2022
2022 – Germany, Art KARLSRUHE
Group Exhibition Villa Del Arte 7 – 10 July 2022
2022 – Barcelona Spain, Villa Del Arte Galleries
Solo Show 27 January – 10 March 2022
2021 – 2022 – Barcelona Spain, 6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography
Solo Exhibition FotoNostrum Gallery 9 December 2021 – 29 January 2022
2021 – Miami Beach USA, SCOPE Miami
Group Exhibition Salome Reches 30 November – 5 December 2021
2021 – Amsterdam The Netherlands, Villa Del Arte Galleries
Solo Show Opening 28 October 2021
2021 – Amsterdam The Netherlands, Art&Antiques Weekend
Group Exhibition Villa Del Arte Galleries Amsterdam 24 – 26 September 2021
2021 – Paris France, Annual Paris Photo Prize Exhibition
Group Exhibition 26 – 31 October 2021
2021 – Constantinople Turkey, Contemporary Istanbul
Group Exhibition Booth A1 – 212 Villa Del Arte 5 – 10 October 2021
2021 – Barcelona Spain, Villa Del Arte Galleries
Permanent artist
2021 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Villa Del Arte Galleries
Permanent artist
2020 – Barcelona Spain, FotoNostrum Gallery
Group Exhibition of the 14th Pollux Awards & 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2015 – Naarden The Netherlands, Fotofestival Naarden
Group Exhibition Joke Veeze Nomination
2015 – Bredevoort The Netherlands, Foto21 Gallery
Group Exhibition
2015 – Amsterdam The Netherlands, Fotovakschool University Of Applied Photography
Group Exhibition
2014 – Enschede The Netherlands, Fotogalerie Objektief
Group Exhibition
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Online, European Photography Awards Virtual Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Featuring ‘The Way Of The Erhu’ and ‘Icarus And Daedalus’
2022 – Online, FERFERRO OASIS VR Gallery
Solo Exhibition, Designed by FERFERRO® (Ferron Collette)
2022 – Online, MUSE Virtual Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Featuring ‘Bee Extravaganza’ from the ‘Alien Beauty’ series
2022 – Online, New York Photography Awards Virtual Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Featuring ‘Uplifting’ from the ‘Where Is Adam?’ series
2021 – Online, Villa Del Arte Virtual Solo Exhibition
Solo Exhibition, Featuring the solo show collection ‘Marvels’
2021 – Online, MUSE Virtual Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Featuring ‘Love In Motion’ from the ‘Where Is Adam?’ series
2020 – Online, FERFERRO OASIS VR Gallery
Solo Exhibition, Designed by FERFERRO® (Ferron Collette)
2020 – Online, FotoNostrum VR Gallery
Group Exhibition, Featuring artworks from the ‘Where is Adam?’ series
2020 – Online, Virtual VR Gallery
Solo Exhibition, created by Cheraine Collette in collaboration with LEF3D®
AS FEATURED IN
2023 – Bored Panda Capturing The Resilience Of Nature: My Evolving ‘Marvels’ Collection
2023 – LENSCULTURE Editor’s Pick, and Homepage & Instagram Feature
2023 – The Artling The Shape Of It: Figurative Art
2023 – The Artling Bird Artworks Collection
2023 – The Artling Animals in Art Collection
2023 – The Artling Surrealist Photography Collection