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At the beginning, were the drawings of my earliest youth. Little colored squares put side by side to form what my brother and I used to call "magasins": my first primitive art, full of innocence, plenitude of little boy's concentration upon his work. After, there were school art courses which seriously broke into this primitive innocence. My work as an artist, is like a tentative of recovering the child's joy in front of colours. Over the year, it has also become a mean of exploration and of communication. Another remembrance linked to the origin of my artistic emotions is an old Disney movie, in which colours were flowing out from a magic paint-brush, thus giving birth to the story, to shapes, characters, landscapes... In a way, I have the same joy while realizing my modern marble paintings. After having left school, I went back to drawing and painting as an amateur, as a dilettante, an explorator, an autodidact, inventing not rules but ways of exploration.

What encouraged me to continue was the unexpected apparition of a vegetal face during my first essay with watercolour, which provoked the surprise and the astonishment of an explorator who, 20 years later, is not back yet from those lands and continue to discover new ones.

I multiplicated the essays, always questing for the new, diversifying the technics, the viewpoints, getting more audacious. The works illustrated here give an idea of the diverse aspects of my work.

Marble painting. This technic was used 1000 years ago by Persian soufis as a mean of meditating before beginning their circle dance. In the 18th century it was used for decorating cover page of books. I practice this technic in a more free way. For me, it's also a kind of contemplation or meditation. China ink. Another kind of improvisation, with reminiscences of hieroglyphs and chinese ideograms. Mandala. Geometry and colours, computer generated, but without the cold or artificial aspect of such works.

Collage, according to the old fashion of surrealist collage, with the help of a image computer program, which give new liberties to the artist, and give to his imagination tools that allow him to incarnate his visions. Manipulations give birth to new images, a kind of a lyric abstraction, in which the original motive gets drowned or is integrated into a new creation. These pictures are printed on different types of creation papers and boards, which give them a certain style. There are the etchings of the 21st century.
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Thanx for having taken the time to read this text. I appreciate it.