 A
self taught painter, he has drawn since childhood. He started by getting
proficient in many techniques: pencil, gouache, ink, water colours,
red chalk drawing and more but has finally come to prefer oil painting,
a technique he has worked in now for many years. In the 1990s he made
2 discoveries : on the one hand the works of old pastel masters such
as: Quentin de La Tour, Chardin, Degas, Mary Cassat; on the other those
of contemporary pastellists exhibiting together every summer in Feytiat
in the Limousin.
The freshness and the purity of pastel works and the immediate effect
that one achieves when applying pastel to paper are among the characteristics,
which motivated him to try this technique. Pastellism, which is part
of both drawing and painting, enchanted him. In 2007, working with master
pastellists, he perfected his art. Having definitively adopted dry pastellism,
his principle source of inspiration is now Still Life.
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