"Hizelaya is interested in the technique of monotype, the painter's print as I like to call it, and experiments with all its possibilities with a predilection for the random. This work is first and foremost an artistic experience, a performance lived every day in which the artist reveals his often dreamed creations. The work with color is also magnificent."
 Stephanie Peyrissac
 Hizelaya is a painter and visual artist.
 Born in Roubaix in 1956, her father Philippe Derville, a painter (lepeintrederville.com), introduced her to painting and color from a very young age.
 After a carefree and happy childhood, she decided to study painting and drawing at the Roubaix School of Fine Arts. After completing her studies, she left for Paris. She then embarked on her professional life and chose communications and advertising creation, a field in which she would work for ten years.
 For many years, Hizelaya has been captivated by the Basque Coast. In 2000, she planted her paint box there and found "her own meaning" in this magnificent landscape. It was a friend, Philippe Real del Sarte, who encouraged her to move forward.
 In 2004, they exhibited together in the legendary place of the Infanta's house in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
 She now divides her time between her Parisian studio and her studio at the foot of the Rhune.
 Group exhibitions
 November 2021: Clouds exhibition, Stéphanie Peyrissac Collection, Paris
 October 2020: Milady Greenhouses, Biarritz
 February 2020: “The Transmission” Saint Denis de la Réunion.
 Spring 2019: Hizelaya and Inigo Arregi exhibition, Posta room, Urrugne.
 2018: Street Art with the artist collective: les tatatagueuses, “Death of Simone Weil”, Paris.
 2014: Thomas Hirschorn “The Eternal Flame”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
 2014: Galerie Kléber, Paris.
 2014: 104 Kléber, Paris.
 2013: Galerie Anne et Just Jaeckin, Paris.
 2012: Affordable Art Fair, London.
 2011: Bernard Chauchet Gallery.
 2009: Screening of “White Night at the 13th arrondissement town hall”, Paris.
 Individual exhibitions
 May 2022: Le Mareyeur exhibition, rue de Vaugirard, Paris.
 March-June 2020: Stéphanie Peyrissac Collection, Paris.
 2018: Quai de l’Infante Gallery, Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
 2014: House of the Infanta, Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
 2004: House of the Infanta, Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
 Monotype or printmaking is a printing process without engraving that produces a unique print.
 Hizelaya paints with ink or oil on a plexiglass, aluminum, or copper plate. The paint is then pressed onto paper, a sheet, or even a sheet. The artist then works on the effects by adding other materials for a truly mysterious result.
 Hizelaya became interested in the technique of monotype, "the painter's print," when she returned to work under the supervision of a professor at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She experimented with all the possibilities of monotype, leaving a large part to chance. Historian Françoise Claire Prodhon writes, "this undoubtedly founding moment is one of questioning marked by a return to experimentation, in search of a new lease of life."
 All of these works are rooted in Hizelaya's illustrated writings and diaries. These are daily notes in which the painter recounts his dreams, future works, and thoughts on art and artists.
 For Hizelaya, the transition to monotype is first and foremost an artistic experience, a performance lived every day in which the artist reveals her often dreamed creations. She draws heavily on her unconscious and paints with her right hand even though she is left-handed. The creation of an image creates another image and so on. The artist expresses this by saying, "it is a psycho-corporal engagement and not just a thought."
 Hizelaya questions the role of women in the 21st century, the place of the female artist in the 21st century.
 Stephanie Peyrissac