French cuisine and chefs are an inspiration for me. I particularly enjoy David Rathgeber’s cuisine because it is a bistro style cuisine, which is a cuisine closely tied to the history of France and Parisian culture. I love the fact that both Chefs and painters share the same vocabulary, very much around the notions of […]
Photographers and painters are like partners and both have a special relationship to the image, the picture. For me it’s fascinating to work with photographers in my creative process. As a painter, I work with photographers in the art studio in different ways. For example, we organize photoshoots with models for a modelling session in […]
Une nouvelle série est en train de naitre dans l’atelier, de nouvelles images se bousculent dans ma tête, des tableaux de Nicolas Poussins, des estampes d’Hokusai et des images de mes voyages comme dans un film du National Géographique. A new série start in the studio, some image run in my head, paintings of Nicolas […]
To be Fully honest, I believe the debate over modernity is irrelevant for a painter. Painting aims at being timeless. For me Vermeer’s « Girl with a Pearl Earing », while looking at me, does not belong to any specific time frame. She could be a girl I just came across on the underground. I like digging […]
« Les Baigneuses » is a typical painter’s motif. It implies the artist beholds the scene from his favorite standpoint: the voyeur’s. I believe this explains the large number of paintings with that theme since the Renaissance period: Diane Bathing, Suzanne and the old people, the Baigneuse ( Titian, Tintoretto, Corrège). The European conception of the painting […]
Painting is a language I understand. When I was a child, drawing meant fun and shelter, As a teenager, after crush on comics I came across painting. This encounter felt as natural as can be. All of sudden, I was discovering the history of art as a whole (Nicolas de Stael, Antoni Tapies, Jean Fautrier, Robert […]
