Artists

Emmanuel Fillion is an artist who comes from a long tradition of apprenticeship in sculpture which in France dates back to the medieval period of the great cathedrals: the legendary Companions, the stonecutters, builders of Gothic cathedrals.

His fourteenth generation identifies him as the direct grandson of the master Jean Cousin, painter of the French Renaissance, author of "Eve before Pandora" (currently exhibited at the Louvre) and his birth, in Soissons in 1966, saw him grow professionally in a area rich in history and stone sculptures.

His beginnings saw him sculpting at the young age of 15, as an apprentice, renovating prestigious historical monuments in France including: Notre Dame, Chateau de Chambord, The Louvre, La Sainte Chappelle in Vincennes, the cathedrals of Amiens, Sens, Beauvais , Rouen, Bourges, Moulins, Blois to name a few…

In 1994, Fillion moved to California: a journey that allowed him to create sculptures in marble, bronze, terracotta, paintings with the tromp-l'oeil technique, as well as portraits.

In 1997 he opened a studio in Malibu, where he began creating works for the most significant residences of American architectural heritage: the Fleur de Lys estate, Beverly Hills; Evershine, Los Altos, Arrowhead Lake Chateau and other works in Texas, Tennessee, Nevada, Oklahoma and Georgia.

Fillion's sculptures can also be found in private collections in the UK, France, Italy, Greece and the glittering United Arab Emirates.

In 2002 he appears in an educational documentary funded by Annenberg called “Through the Eyes of the Sculptor”, where he explains all the processes involved in creating a sculpture and virtually brings the viewer here to Pietrasanta, where Emmanuel has a studio.