"Lake Water" Painting

After a few periods in France and abroad, I live and work in the Grenoble Alps since 2005. Coming from a family of several painters, painting has never ceased to be a part of my life. After some explorations in watercolor and oil pastel, I finally turned to oil painting with a palette knife since 2008, a practice that I have explored for many years, both self-taught and in the studio at the Beaux Arts in Grenoble. I have been exhibiting since 2019 in salons and group exhibitions in the Grenoble region. In the course of my creative explorations, I am increasingly turning towards the representation of an strangely familiar world, both sensitive and offbeat. I revisit common places (which I glean during my travels) in a style mixing impressionism and expressionism, and pulsating to the rhythm of lyrical abstraction and surrealism. Astonishing anthropomorphic shapes (from my "inner sketches") mingle in the space, giving it all its magic through the imprint of the singular. The direct, instinctive and powerful strokes imprint a unique style and let the pictorial material express itself freely through the superposition of layers, where the background resurfaces. The broad impasto alla prima offers a material that is sculpted more than painted, and let the background layers be revealed by the graffito technique, giving a tactile and vibrant effect and above all a huge playground to explore light and material in all their intensity. The richness of the material captivates and invites the eye to explore the details through a tactile perception, conveying the intense energy and emotional depth that radiate from the canvas.