The artist is a dream builder ... He opens the way to a coded universe where everyone can find their way!
Biography
After a preparation workshop for the Grandes Ecoles in Paris, where I studied film photography, I won the Paris Beaux Arts competition.
I wanted to join a painting workshop but the structure of the school itself was too loose. I didn't like the atmosphere. The spirit did not suit me
So I left to study oil painting on my own. Skin glue (old techniques), stand oil, siccative, learning washes, impasto...through abstract painting. My paintings were rather dark, inspired by Soulage.
I now live in Sète. .In the South the colors are more intense and more vivid, which opened the way to a more lively and colorful painting towards a figuration free from realistic constraints, playing with shapes as with words and borrowing from dreams its poetic verve.
I combine a number of techniques and supports: watercolor inks and pencils, graphite, India ink and multiple-tip pens on paper, acrylic paint on paper. Acrylic and oil on canvas. For oil; I prepare my painting mediums myself with Venetian turpentine and Dammar varnish. Which gives the surface a much more enameled and shiny finish.
As for acrylic, I sometimes make my paints with natural pigments. The result is much more beautiful...However, the artist is also a craftsman and must acquire all the keys to his trade to provide a finished object that is successful in both content and form. I work with acrylic on sheet after priming with gesso to consolidate the sheet although I paint on 300 grs watercolor paper. I use brushes and painting knives to superimpose layers when I want to create vibrations in contact with light.
My paintings follow the thread of my dreams. I imprint the techniques on several currents of art but my works are above all the reflection of a totally personal universe, an alchemy of styles in a constant search for means of expression in the respect and sincerity of a universe teeming with symbols and magic within the image itself.
My painting touches on many movements while creating a very personal and singular whole. Cubism, surrealism and more classical art, then primitivism, combine to bring symbols into play. The figures flourish in a theatrical way in order to tell stories drawing on the unconscious, tales and legends or to convey a strong message about the universality of man as a #039;a living being, charged with consciousness
and carrying emotions and feelings making it interact with its community and its environment...its wonderful place of life that is the earth!
Influences
Paul Klee, Jan Toroop, Picasso, Art brut Outsider singulier, Matisse, De Chirico, Symbolisme, Expressionnime, Surréalisme, Arts primitifs
Education
1999-2000 Entrée aux Beaux-Arts de Paris Paris, France
1987-1999 Atelier de préparation aux Ecoles d'Art : atelier de sèvres Paris, France
1996-1997 Baccalauréat littéraire option arts plastiques Levallois-Perret, France
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2020 Salle de la Macaronade Sète, France
2014 Exposition de peinture Poussan, France
2010 Exposition de peintures Galerie Dock Sud Sète, France
2008 Exposition Salle Peschot Sète, France
Collective Expositions
2024 Exposition dans une association Valetudo Cloître de saint Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches du Rhône, France
2021 Exposition collective aux Beaux-Arts des Alpilles sur le thème "Libertés d'expression" Saint-Rémy de Provence, France
2020 Présentation d'une peinture en partenariat avec Lynn Johnson, photographe du National Géographic, Galerie LEICA Los Angeles, Californie, United States
2016 Galerie Vue sur Cour Narbonne, France
2016 Galerie Artitude Paris, France
2007 Exposition de photos argentiques Galerie Dock Sud Sète, France
Publications & Press
2014 Article dans le Midi Libre Poussan, Occitanie, France