Oddly enchanting paintings of familiar landscapes by Antoine Corbineau

Date
2 February 2015

It’s my personal opinion that some of the most exciting creative work starts life as a side project to distract from commercial jobs. Such is definitely the case for Antoine Corbineau, a French illustrator and designer who has worked on a plethora of projects for commercial clients, drawing up large-scale, intricate scenes of characters interacting in an enormous, often map-like style. Potentially even more alluring, however, is Antoine’s painting work. It’s distinctly less bright, almost realist in its approach, depicting familiar domestic scenes and landscapes interspersed with small but resonant human activity. His attention to minute detail – the foliage of a plant, a picture frame, the icons on a computer screen – and his accuracy in creating scenes that you could swear you’d seen before makes this body of work oddly enchanting.

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Antoine Corbineau: Le Tremplin

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Antoine Corbineau: Datcha

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Antoine Corbineau: Pool Park (Procé)

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Antoine Corbineau: Glisse dans la Baie

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Antoine Corbineau: L’Avion de Tchelny

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Antoine Corbineau: Vendredi (Bord de Loire)

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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