I started working in watercolors, but now I use especially acrylic, 
allows me to work in mixed colors . My results in a realistic style, 
colorful influenced by the Anglo-Saxon school of new Surrealists. 
My Stories are still about life and times , and problems  for finding
 its place in society, whether child, adolescent or adult. 

Children's literature and me: As a child, even before I read, I was
 a great fan of images, color, tenderness, comfort and escape that 
I found in children's books, "my dear little books", were my treasure to me, 
in my vegetables wood box used as a library, I dragged in the 4 corners 
of the house. The  youth literature helped me to grow up, 
to cultivate my differences and widen my field of vision. After a 
breakaway for 15 years through the Fine Arts (which continues 
today), I renewed  since 2004 with my dear childhood treasure 
(even if my precious vegetables wood box unfortunately disappeared), 
I try to pass on the other side of the barrier and to create my books as 
an author - illustrator for discovering and love for children of the world. 

Fictionalized biography: (yet true in all points!) Once upon a time, 
Sandrine Bélart, author-illustrator, painter, graphic designer, 
independent Rock musician ( "Gingerbread" and today, "Hamilton")...
one of whose ancestors was a crew member of Jean Bart, famous 
French Corsaire (terror of North seas, captain of privateers based 
in Dunkerque). 

"My paternal grandmother was in Calais lace, after a large 
family of fishermen, seafarers and "dentelières" (Calais, Boulogne, 
Dunkerque) she sent undoubtedly gene taste for beautiful things 

and the determination and adventure ... " 


(My grandmother Rosalie foreground) 

So French, but also with some distant roots Anglo-Spanish ... 
After a family of workers, she born 20 December in the Pas-de
-Calais, France. 

"The story said that in 1658, Dunkerque, the basis of the fleet privateer 
commissioned by Jean Bart, was Spanish and French and English on 
the same day. " 

After spent the savings that it has opened by Rosa grandmother  to 
register at the Beaux-Arts of Valenciennes, then at the School of Arts 
in Tourcoing, where she graduated with mention. Already his artistic 
work reflects a certain attraction to the tales, legends, myths, mysteries 
of the nature and ancestral worship. 

From 1991, she teaches visual arts  in workshop or in the Museum 
of Nord Pas-de-Calais to pass to large and small universe and its taste 
for Art. In 2000 she went to new technologies, secret software 
production of images, she continues to create strong links between its 
phantasmagoria and computer. It becomes more graphics and 
spent some years in advertising, including in 2003 at Studio ETC 
(Benifontaine) where she worked on Characters in licenses (ASTERIX / 
PINGU / WINNIE / BABAR / RONALD MC DONALD ...). 
The revelation. She finally found its way, direction "illustration". 

My adventurer roots found: In continuing my research, I traced my 
privateer ancestor in a book by Jean MERRIEN, "Histoire des Corsaires"
at "l'Ancre de Marine" publishings. 

Pages 167 to 173, POURE Louis (1741-1789), an humble privateer 
Boulogne Marine naive writer says: 
     
In another, in 1766, South Tief their privateer was attacked Three 
English ships (a box, a schooner and a frigate) ... after 3:30, the 
frigate was our anchor behind the scope of a shot ... she sent a second 
fly ... we were drilled to water in the room, the captain SOUBITEZ 
(my grandmother called Rosalie SOUBITEZ) took the lead flag ... 
it was a sad case heard a crew English to shout: Come save us! 
It is time! We sink! ... I say to the captain SOUBITEZ will present 
the first on the board to board of English; and they have not done their 
due diligence, he answered me: We must die, my cousin! ... 

Finally, I was not earlier aboard the schooner that our privateer sank 
to the bottom ... we had no knowledge of cousin SOUBITEZ, otherwise he 
sat on the crown before  the ship sank, shouting to the English to save 
him. And so ends his life and that of many brave people ". 

TRAINING: 

1989: 
DNAP (National Diploma of Visual Arts) with 
mention Ecole des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes (France)

1996: 
DNSEP (Higher National Diploma Expression 
Plastic) Ecole des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing (France)

2002: 
Technician Training graphic multimedia 
Arras (France) 

EXPERIENCE: 

Oct 2008 
participation of "the rosalynd4feuilles Publishings" 
at the 2nd Book Market of Peruwelz 
"Les Instantanées" (Belgium) (11 and 12 October) 

April 2008: 
participation of "the rosalynd4feuilles Publishings"
at the 2nd "insolite" Book Fair  of
Florennes (Belgium). 

Article in "l'Observateur de l'arrageois"(April 2008) 
entitled "Drawings scent of childhood." 
Read here! 

Article in "l'Avenir de l'Artois" (April 2008) 
entitled "Drawings of Sandrine." 
Read here! 

March 2008: 

Article in "Elle Magazine" (10 March 2008) 
Lille regional pages (France)! 
entitled "IT in Lille, talents: The illustrations we love. " 
Read here!


Purchase of "Les Shamanies" of the Rosalynd4feuilles Publishings
by the Library of Arras (France) for the background artists books.

Participation of "the rosalynd4feuilles Publishings" 
at the 7th Biennial "Livres à voir" organize by
le Quai de la Batterie at the Hôtel de Guînes ARRAS (France). 

Reading of "Les Shamanies" of the Rosalynd4feuilles Publishings 
by Fred Personne at the Cabaret-reading,at the 7th Biennial 
"Livres à voir" organize by le Quai de la Batterie at the Hôtel de 
Guînes ARRAS (France). 

Since November 2007: 
Assistant Gallery for Contemporary Art 
for "le Quai de la Batterie" ARRAS (France) (communication, 
workshops engraving, setting up exhibitions ...). 

October 2007: 
participation of "the rosalynd4feuilles Publishings" 
at the 7th book fair of Nieppe (France) 

October 2006: 
Illustration workshop under 
"Lire en Fête" Achicourt (62) (France). 

2007: 
Press correspondent for the newspaper "l'Observateur 
de l'arrageois"Arras.

2003: 
Colorist for the graphical Studio ETC (Benifontaine, France) 
from licensing characters (ASTERIX / PINGU / WINNIE / BABAR 
/ RONALD MC DONALD ...). 

between 2002 and 2007: 
graphic designer (communication services, 
advertising, City Hall, Go to Japan ...). 

91 to 2007: 
visual art teacher 
in cultural strucutres (Museums, Cultural Centers...) 
and colleges (Nord / Pas-de-Calais, France).