As a art student she has studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris , The Louvre School , and at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris . Severine Fain has spent several years in Amsterdam describing the very specific light of the Netherlands . She has tried to discover the mystery of this light by studying the ‘golden age’ works of the great Dutch painters . Severine Fain has also taught Artistic Anatomy at the Visual Communication School in Bordeaux . Nowadays she is back to her Breton roots . Drawing , pastel and oil painting remain her preferred techniques to catch the mystery of the light which is the central subject in each of her works , her source of inspiration and the basis of her composition.