nº2 Painting

I am born the 30th of January 1962 in Orleans a city at 100km from Paris. I pased hours drawing and I allready wanted to be a painter... I was 14 when we came close to Paris, and I was 20 when I started the beaux art and lived on my own in Paris. Then I started by working with making paterns for materials, but there was not much job. Bit by bit I finally worked in movies … I started painting for movies, then I was assistant, and finally I became decorator. But I had enough of Paris, so I left in 1996 to live in the south of France, to be in nature and to paint. I found work in decoration of festivals, and restoring wall paintings in churches, and I restored my house. When I arrived in provence I was painting figurative in a free way, then I wanted to be more free so I went to abstract paintings, some times it is stronger than me I paint flowers or trees. I made more and more exibitions, but I did not want to run everywhere with my paintings, I am quite wild and really don’t like moving too mutch… So all the exibitions I did was in the same region. Then I met some one, I sold my house, and we bought one in Algarve where I go one painting… Thecnique : I work on monotype since 16 years, monotype means one unic imprint, I paint on a glass, with pigments and a lithographic medium, and I take a imprint with paper or silk paper. Then I stick my papers or silk papers on a canevas, stack them, I usualy finish with dry pastel and of course varnish.