Artistic approach
“Seek with all your heart to be who you are deep down and must be to offer what only you can bring.”
This is, in short, what lives within me, what I strive to discover and acquire. This quest led me to painting, which has become for me more than a passion but a mission;
“Beauty will save the world!”
To this hopeful sentence from Dostoevsky we add that of Karol Wojtyla in a letter dedicated to artists:
"May the beauty that you pass on to tomorrow's generations be such that it arouses wonder in them!"
To complete the cycle, wonder, according to Maurice Zundel,
"It is the privileged moment when we are suddenly healed for an instant of ourselves and thrown into a Presence that we do not need to name, which fills us at the same time as it delivers us from ourselves."
This is the background that gives rhythm to my artistic work.
Deeply inspired by nature, its wisdom, its patience, its silence and its resilience, I tend to think outside the box, to seek out little-known places to paint and transmit to present and future generations what it teaches us through its very often chaotically harmonious beauty.
My desire is to arouse in each individual who contemplates these works this wonder, a spark that gives a taste for living fully despite the hazards and uncontrollable circumstances of life.
To achieve this, I generally paint outdoors, and develop a direct and intimate connection with the scenes I capture, which I hope to imbue into each work. I find just as much pleasure in developing and deepening in the studio.
Using the contemporary impressionist style mixed with a touch of expressionism, I use oil as a medium and anything that can help me convey what I see and feel, through the brush, the spatula, the fingers, a nail, a twig, etc.
May the eye be prudent and linger on what surrounds it that is most banal, which cries out without noise: Oh wonders!
