Jean-François Altmayer

Self-taught French painter. Started painting in 1985, practicing drawing and watercolor for ten years. My learning was built through books and my exploration of museums, catalogs, everything that could relate to art.
At the same time as we discover the color, the composition, the shapes that we can give to a work, we also discover ourselves, we find our emotions, our feelings, our personality.
Because art is not made to decorate, it is truly created from an identity, a character, an experience that is specific to each individual, a personality in short. Watercolor turned out to be a very limiting technique to be able to represent what I had found in myself, what I wanted to express.
Painting with acrylic on canvas was a real revelation. Painting and building a work is done step by step, it is not enough to want to do as a recognized artist or another to do your work, you must above all, find within yourself, what you have to say, find your true form of expression.
Jean-François Altmayer.

Life will always remain an enigma... Why are we here, alive? I do not have the will and especially not the possibility to answer this question. I just wanted to understand what I could do in this life, and express what I felt.
Saying and putting into images my thoughts, my ideas, my emotions, about my life and about life, this is how I have painted now for more than thirty years, on humans, on the world that we have created.
My work has evolved, each of my paintings can seem different and at the same time radically unique, because, ultimately, I paint little. I had to do something else... art never gave me something to live for, but art makes me Alive.
We can consider that there is not one style in my work, that each canvas is very different, but it is a permanent evolution depending on the ideas of work, and it is in this evolution, in the capacity to reflection that one can imagine art.
A self-portrait from the blue period and Guernica have absolutely nothing in common, neither in aesthetic form nor in expression, and yet it is by the same artist, one of the best-known artists in the world. . the same goes for a work entitled "Nude descending a staircase" and another totally different work, a bottle rack, described by the art...

1995: Exhibition of watercolors at the gallery of a Tour in Paris 16th
1997: Exhibition of watercolors at the gallery of a Tour in Paris 16th
2006: Exhibition of paintings on canvas in Grimaud, Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
2015 : Exhibition of paintings on canvas in parc Longchamp Marseille.
2022 : Exhibition of paintings on canvas in Paris, Galerie Libre est l'Art.