Thomas De Lur

I am a young French artist, holding a diploma from Paris' ENSBA (Superior Fine Arts National School).
I have attended Pat Andréa's and Jean-Michel Alberola’s workshops, I have loved Philippe Comar's morphology courses and James Bloedé's teachings.

I also spent much time wandering in Paris, a town I love and where I was born. I have also studied in detail the Louvre' and Orsay' chefs-d'oeuvres, only a short distance away from my school.

Today I share my time between Paris and Lyon where I teach Painting and History of art.

After some meandering into minimalist and conceptual art, I have come back to my first love : figurative, realist drawing and painting, which I have practiced since I was 6 y.o.

I am deeply attached to the technical dimension, the painter's trade, nowadays too often forgotten (I like beautiful tools, well-prepared canvases, the play of alternating thin and thick layers, varnish finish…)
I work with live models, memories and photos, all of which I mix and carefully recompose in large formats.

My practice is along the time-long tradition of nude work. I want to emphasize today's young Parisian woman, naturally beautiful, elegant, conscious of her seductive power, fearlessly asserting her independence and free...

DNSAP (Master of Fine Art), Beaux-arts de Paris.

-Solo Exhibition, L’Appartement, Lyon 2018.

-Solo Exhibition, DATTA Gallery, 2016, Lyon.

-Solo Exhibition, MAPRA, 2015, Lyon.

-Collective Exhibition, EXPOSITION JEUNE CREATION, CENTQUATRE, 2013, Paris.

-Solo Exhibition, Galerie Crous, Paris, 2012.

-Collective Exhibition, Galerie Gauche, Paris, 2011.

-Collective Exhibition, Réfectoire des Nonnes, Paris, 2011.