Artists Statement
I am inspired by the French Lyrical Abstract style, which can be seen as a balanced elegant style of painting that is loaded with content from the natural world, often marked by sumptuous colour.
French Lyrical Abstraction is about expressing something personal, subjective and emotive, and to do it in a poetic, abstracted way.
I use colours to explore the relationship between nature and art, and its continuing transformation. Changing from minute to minute, nature provides the perfect symbols for all our emotions in life: sorrow, joy, regret, yearning, wanting, frustration, anger, love, and more. Nature depict life in all its messy, glorious, colourful and fleeting moments.
I use a unique technique of my own invention, by creating a thickly applied layered surface full of small impasto markings of paint with a palette knife. This decadent surface of texture brings my abstraction to life.
My intention is to create finished work that is abstracted and more expressional than representational and I endeavor to generate a sense of intimacy while leaving the subject open to interpretation.
I have exhibited world wide and my paintings can be found in private collections in France, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and South Africa.
Credentials Highlights
Solo Exhibitions
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2023
Galerie L'Angélus / 27 grande rue 77630 Barbizon - Barbizon, France -
2023
Beijing international art Biennale / Beijing Art Expo - Beijing, China -
2019
Galerie Bleue / Valbonne - Valbonne, France -
2018
Galeria Gaudi / MADRID - Madrid, Spain -
2017
Vin & Art / Chateau de Saint Martin - Taradeau, France -
2015
Abstract Flowers / YLIP Gallery - Lorgues, France
Group Exhibitions
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2018
Art3F Cannes / Cannes Gallery - Cannes, France -
2018
Le cœur de l'art / Various Galleries - Tourrettes, France -
2014
Ciel et Mer / Galerie Axiome - Bordeaux, France -
2013
Chelsea Art Walk 2013 / Chelsea - New York, United States -
2011
West Vancouver Art Fair / West Vancouver Memorial Art Gallery - Vancouver, Canada
Publications
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2023
Pratique des Arts
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2021
The Asset Times
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2017
Var Matin- L'Art Entre en Scene -
2014
The International Contemporary Artists Volume viii - The International Contemporary Artists Volume viii
Permanent collections
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2021
Gallery Crillon, Tokyo, Japan -
2021
Yudian Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China