"Rouge/Red" Painting

Improvising with free bold strokes, like the action painters of the fifties were enthusiastically doing while exploring new ways to push the boundaries of creativity. Painting with enthusiasm, focus and energy, with a rich distribution of colors and nuances on the palettes, divided between warm and cold colors.
The sources of my inspiration were impressionism, lyrical abstraction, abstract expressionism (Riopelle, Pollock, Ferron, de Kooning, etc). I sometimes tend to leave my work unfinished, for it to breathe, and to leave it unresolved, as it often happens with life’s events. It’s important for me to give free reins to my inspiration, to keep the enthusiasm. Thus my work is not formatted, and not done with marketing in mind. My inspiration is free and my artwork might move in different and unpredictable directions. Where does inspiration come from? Is it from me, or is « me » blocking inspiration? How can the canal for creativity be wide open?

After spending some time working with technology (3d animation, teaching drawing on computers) I found that technological artworks did not move me. I rediscovered the pleasure of using the body in creating art and the quality of human gestures. I also appreciate the imperfection associated with the human condition as opposed to the always improving perfection of computer work. I enjoy the accidents that happens during creation and that are part of the process.

Even thought I long for tranquility and the love of peace found in nature, for some reasons my paintings end up being quite the contrary, with much energy and action in them. It seems that the opposition between what I long for and the experience and pace of the big cities that I lived in is a generator of creativity.

I used to sign my paintings in the back but I started to sign, discretely, in the front as well. I mostly use 1 1/2 thick canvas (the sides are not always painted, drops of paint are part of the work), they can be hanged as is and don't need to be framed. I hope my paintings can contribute to add deep positive vibrations and somehow "energize" the viewer.