ARTISTIC APPROACH & RESEARCH
As a visual artist for almost 25 years, I express myself through mixed media and mosaics to create a unique visual signature. Alongside my personal studies in the visual arts, I have diversified my artistic approach to find a balance between my need to create visual artworks or mosaics commissioned by galleries, institutions and companies and my cultural mediation initiatives. This professional strategy reflects my desire to reach a wider audience and to bring art to sometimes unexpected places, while giving me great freedom of expression.
The great complexity of nature, wild and untamed as it is, is a constant source of inspiration for me. The expression of emotions that emerges from my work now means more to me than any slavish copy of reality. Whatever the medium, I use abstract language and I distort reality to bring out what is essential—emotion. I’m not devoted either to figurative or abstract styles—I feel my way along Ariadne’s thread like a half-blind traveller. For me, this dialectic is like an open door to dialogue.
Regardless of medium, my deeply considered approach allows me to go beyond realism and to give a different feel to my compositions. I simplify forms and break down the spectrum to obtain subtle variations in brightness and contrast. I am inspired in my approach by an insatiable thirst for research and I experience osmosis between life around me and my many trips abroad. Experience provides me with a synthesis of ideas, images and emotions that come together in a rhythmic and colourful picture.
Every canvas is a great project, no matter how small it may be. It begins with a pencil line and a range of colours in my head. Inspiration gives me a burst of energy that lets me create works that combine the immediate moment, my mood and the subject I want to explore. I lay down a structural background to suggest movement, which I then cover with warm colour. The paintings take material shape out of my brush strokes, like a stained glass window where you could almost separate the components. When I start a painting, I insist on spontaneity.
Since 2008, I have also expressed myself through my mosaic art, which I perfected after training at Mosaïkashop Montreal and numerous studios in France, Italy, Portugal and the United States. Mosaic was a revelation for me, its fragmented colours and planes the logical continuation of my artistic journey. I am constantly seeking to push my creative boundaries and everything can be used in the service of art, the slightest tessera of glass, stone or recycled handmade ceramic. It all starts with the materials I choose, based on their shape, colour and thickness. I’m a perfectionist who is always curious and my slow, laborious technique allows me to dream up my next works. My creations are part of my quest to reveal the qualities of raw, natural materials alongside recycled objects. Although my works are fragmented, colourful and textured, they are an image of the energy that I draw from the resilience of nature and my own challenges.
I have had the privilege for a long time of working with creative people who nourish me and contribute to the development of my art. This closeness makes me push myself a little every day to imagine possibilities all around me and constantly absorb information that stimulates my creativity.
The great complexity of nature, wild and untamed as it is, is a constant source of inspiration for me. The expression of emotions that emerges from my work now means more to me than any slavish copy of reality. Whatever the medium, I use abstract language and I distort reality to bring out what is essential—emotion. I’m not devoted either to figurative or abstract styles—I feel my way along Ariadne’s thread like a half-blind traveller. For me, this dialectic is like an open door to dialogue.
Regardless of medium, my deeply considered approach allows me to go beyond realism and to give a different feel to my compositions. I simplify forms and break down the spectrum to obtain subtle variations in brightness and contrast. I am inspired in my approach by an insatiable thirst for research and I experience osmosis between life around me and my many trips abroad. Experience provides me with a synthesis of ideas, images and emotions that come together in a rhythmic and colourful picture.
Every canvas is a great project, no matter how small it may be. It begins with a pencil line and a range of colours in my head. Inspiration gives me a burst of energy that lets me create works that combine the immediate moment, my mood and the subject I want to explore. I lay down a structural background to suggest movement, which I then cover with warm colour. The paintings take material shape out of my brush strokes, like a stained glass window where you could almost separate the components. When I start a painting, I insist on spontaneity.
Since 2008, I have also expressed myself through my mosaic art, which I perfected after training at Mosaïkashop Montreal and numerous studios in France, Italy, Portugal and the United States. Mosaic was a revelation for me, its fragmented colours and planes the logical continuation of my artistic journey. I am constantly seeking to push my creative boundaries and everything can be used in the service of art, the slightest tessera of glass, stone or recycled handmade ceramic. It all starts with the materials I choose, based on their shape, colour and thickness. I’m a perfectionist who is always curious and my slow, laborious technique allows me to dream up my next works. My creations are part of my quest to reveal the qualities of raw, natural materials alongside recycled objects. Although my works are fragmented, colourful and textured, they are an image of the energy that I draw from the resilience of nature and my own challenges.
I have had the privilege for a long time of working with creative people who nourish me and contribute to the development of my art. This closeness makes me push myself a little every day to imagine possibilities all around me and constantly absorb information that stimulates my creativity.
The seeds have been sown far and wide, nature is merciful and the harvest is good.
A smile on the edge of tears... because emotion gives no warning.
A smile on the edge of tears... because emotion gives no warning.
Steps of the achievements of La dérive (Drift), 30 '' x 40 '' (acrylic and gold leaf on canvas)
Making off Justitia , 36 '' x 36 '' (laying of tiles on printed plywood