Déferlante Painting

TECHNIQUE I use oil paints. I impaste the first layers on an acrylic background, visible in some places. One of my style’s characteristics is to define the painting’s elements with a burnt umber line. My inspiration comes from my pictures of nature, which I interpret on the canvas, as well as from my imagination, especially for my sky studies. My artistic career has been influenced by three painters: Charles Steeler for the purity of the lines Grant Wood for the landscape geometry Edouard Hopper for the melancholic realism of his paintings ARTISTIC PROCESS I mostly paint landscapes, as I love highlighting the power, the beauty and the poetic charm of nature with recurring themes such as the sky and water. Time standing still, a storm on the verge of exploding or a wave ready to collapse give a dramatic tension to the painting, where beauty and danger coexist. The artistic world I create is both realist and poetic thanks to graphic lines and uncluttered volumes. In every painting, this minimalist repertoire where austerity is the rule crashes against a single element with a plentiful, even messy, quality. There’s a duality between peace and turbulence, precision and disorderliness, wisdom and madness.