"CARNICA" Painting

Eric Bourdon is a self-taught French painter and sketch artist based in Lille, France. His work begins with a simple impulse: drawing without knowing exactly where the line will lead.

Working through improvisation, Bourdon transforms spontaneous lines, curves and colourful marks into unexpected characters, creatures and imaginary worlds. What may begin as a doodle gradually becomes a painting through a process of discovery, in which chance and accident play an essential role. Rather than starting with a predetermined image, he allows forms to emerge from the drawing itself.

This playful approach is at the heart of his practice. Bourdon is interested in the creative potential of uncertainty and in the moment when an apparently random line suddenly suggests a face, a body, a story or an emotion.

His original paintings, primarily created with acrylic paint on canvas and other supports, combine drawing and painting in a distinctive, spontaneous language that moves between abstraction and figuration.

Eric Bourdon has exhibited his work in France and internationally, including exhibitions in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the United States and China. His paintings are held in private collections in France and abroad.

For Bourdon, every painting is a new beginning: an invitation to let the line lead, to embrace the unexpected, and to discover what was waiting to appear.