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Behind the appearance of the work the artist wants to be the witness to the consciousness of being and of nostalgia for its finitude

About my artistic approach : "What i do teaches me what i'm looking for" Paul Klee et pierre Soulages

Here is an example of my approach in images  :

My feelings and my intuition decide. I stay far from the subject and close to the emotion that each scene reveals. I let chance guide the creation of the work.  We can say that gradually and at the end of the process which is a path of creation, the work decides itself and a kind of truth of the work is created.The whole is lyrical figurative because i seek to suggest emotions  and let the feelings express themselves and it is poetic by its dreamlike form sought and expressed..

peinture le salon de lecture sérénité final

Poetic Figurative Lyrical painting process

I often start  from one or more photos that i associate and combine for a work (the face or a  places i love, extracted from a personal catalog of beauties which inspires me, or from catalogues of painters of ancient or contemporary history). They serve as starting point. I don't copy them because i don't paint what i see but what i feel. When i am painting i practice a succession of irenration perception/feeling. I am guided in the work by an intuitive search. I seek tones and balances. Then i set up détails and shapes, i add supplements if needed. I also try to suggest whithout too much detailing  the works. I sometimes completely reorient a painting by erasing or repainting it. I use all technical means to arouse emotions : color, scratching , painting, erasing, drippings etc..

Example of creation

I like to find and adopt shapes and colors that i didn't have the idea at the begining of the work. The words of Paul Klee,  Pierre Soulages and Patrick Bléron match me :  "What i do teaches me what i'm looking for"

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Like this last person i don't work trying to excute an entirely preconceived and preview idea  but i seek to build from my inside , from a chosen material, a general idea, a feeling, even a constraint (often an old painting under..)  or a rule of the game, has the condition to be willing to trangress this rule if the need arises ...

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