Thoma Vuille is a Franco-Swiss painter, born in Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in 1977. He is the creator of the graphic series M. Chat, a smiling feline character created in the streets of Orléans in an approach combining optimism and local culture. Thoma Vuille began street painting with acrylic at the age of 15, in memory of her grandfather, a building painter. He studied at the Orléans Institute of Visual Arts from 1995 to 2001. Thoma Vuille’s work consists of a constant variation of the figure of M. Chat, whose trait has been assured over the years. The idea came to him in 1997 during a workshop at an Orleans school where a little girl made a cat drawing that inspired the artist. He then began to paint his cat on the walls of the city of Orléans, preferably at the roofs, with the sole objective of «putting human and love in the city».
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