I have been immersed in abstract painting ‘since my earliest childhood’, as they say. My grandparents
had a friend who was an abstract painter, Fulcrand. His paintings were everywhere in the
family, at my grandparents' house of course, but also at my parents' house and my uncles' and aunts' houses: a
solid collection. A good foundation for appreciating this type of painting. It was inevitable that one day I would
start painting, and in the abstract vein, of course. I began, timidly, a good
thirty years ago. And despite all this time that has passed, I still find it difficult to say what I do.
I have been pleased to note, throughout my exhibitions, that my painting often provokes
varied emotions in its viewers. It is rare for my paintings to leave people indifferent. It is therefore
a painting of emotion and feeling. I bring together, without any obvious logic, several ‘styles’ that are
graphically different, but which converge on one point: sensitivity. Don't look for
‘messages’ or ‘concepts’, there aren't any in my work! No training is
necessary to interpret my work: everyone sees what they want to see, feels what they feel... And that's
fine.
Last year, a painter told me that my painting was ‘rock “n” roll’. I'll take that! But if we're going down that road,
it's also ‘jazz’, ‘progressive rock’, ‘trip-hop’, ‘electro’, etc. It's true that I paint to
music. Although I'm not a musician myself, it's a very important accompaniment for me.
The atmosphere, the atmosphere...
Having been a graphic designer for decades, I practised what I called ‘constrained image’,
meaning that I created images that had to be this way or that way and not
any other way. Images that complied with specifications. The primary goal of my painting was
to free myself from these constraints. To have fun. A quest for freedom, in a way. It was not
seeing that there are always constraints, be they technical, financial, psychological,
temporal... etc... .
In short, having returned from this utopia, I paint with even more pleasure and we'll see
how it turns out...
had a friend who was an abstract painter, Fulcrand. His paintings were everywhere in the
family, at my grandparents' house of course, but also at my parents' house and my uncles' and aunts' houses: a
solid collection. A good foundation for appreciating this type of painting. It was inevitable that one day I would
start painting, and in the abstract vein, of course. I began, timidly, a good
thirty years ago. And despite all this time that has passed, I still find it difficult to say what I do.
I have been pleased to note, throughout my exhibitions, that my painting often provokes
varied emotions in its viewers. It is rare for my paintings to leave people indifferent. It is therefore
a painting of emotion and feeling. I bring together, without any obvious logic, several ‘styles’ that are
graphically different, but which converge on one point: sensitivity. Don't look for
‘messages’ or ‘concepts’, there aren't any in my work! No training is
necessary to interpret my work: everyone sees what they want to see, feels what they feel... And that's
fine.
Last year, a painter told me that my painting was ‘rock “n” roll’. I'll take that! But if we're going down that road,
it's also ‘jazz’, ‘progressive rock’, ‘trip-hop’, ‘electro’, etc. It's true that I paint to
music. Although I'm not a musician myself, it's a very important accompaniment for me.
The atmosphere, the atmosphere...
Having been a graphic designer for decades, I practised what I called ‘constrained image’,
meaning that I created images that had to be this way or that way and not
any other way. Images that complied with specifications. The primary goal of my painting was
to free myself from these constraints. To have fun. A quest for freedom, in a way. It was not
seeing that there are always constraints, be they technical, financial, psychological,
temporal... etc... .
In short, having returned from this utopia, I paint with even more pleasure and we'll see
how it turns out...
