Why I paint
I’ve always been creative and find it hard to channel all my ideas into a single technique: I paint in acrylics, oils, ink, pastels and charcoal. I like gold leaf for the light. Painting is my favorite medium but recently, I started working with paper, collage that I try to sculpt into a 3D plant fresco. I explore volumes, shapes, reliefs. In the manner of a sculpture. Above all, I seek to express emotions through color and movement. My figurative painting has been greatly inspired by primitive art for the simplicity of the line, the contrast of bright colors, the purity of the lines, but I am increasingly moving towards the representation of another reality and towards abstraction which brings a certain freedom. The subject of my creations has always been the living, the representation of the living. Whether human, animal or vegetal. In my portraits as in my collages, I work on the beauty of the living by trying to find the balance between shapes and colors, fullness and emptiness and a certain idea of beauty that I seek to capture.
“What I seek above all to communicate is an impression, an emotion through my work, which presupposes the idea of freedom: feeling rather than knowing. When a work touches us, it’s because we find something of ourselves.
My journey
I’ve been painting with inspiration for 20 years, and I describe my self-taught path with a formula: my artistic education is unformatted, just as my mind is unprejudiced. I don’t take myself too seriously and I’m constantly in doubt, which is my way of moving forward. The next work is always the best. I’m a creative explorer in constant evolution. My job is to do something different every day.
An artist is just someone who shows a singular perspective.
Through my work, I can transcend reality, imagine another world and share emotions. To paint life not as it is, but as I see it. Color is essential and gives me energy when I paint, but also when I look. I think, like Matisse, that it is even more important than the drawing.
I often start with one color or a combination of shades. Inspiration can come from light, travel, nature, the sea or music.
