Patou Desormeaux

I was raised in Monte Carlo. Those chances to learn art were giving to us by the amazing Princesse Grace who successfully started to turn Monte Carlo into an art place in the world. When I was seven years old my art teacher recommended I attend art classes in a studio setting after school. Almost every day for years I was savoring all the knowledge that I could just discover. We where taught all kinds of artwork, how to use mediums: chalk, ink, oil, worked on clay, wood, silk, metal, graving, pyro graphing…this is where I did all my studies, my life experiences became my tools.

As the years went by I traveled all around the world, lived in different countries. I worked in various studios with fellow artists. Over those last decades and countless paintings, I developed the way to express my own vision. I was not only painting, I was sculpting clay, creating a line of furniture, a complete collection of jewelry as well. I had opportunity to explore with texture and dimension. I paint from emotion, experience, memory.
My process is planed from that point on, the act of creation becomes a quest to achieve visions of freedom and balance to add a little "emotional beauty" to the world. The colors I incorporate in to every work are inspired by memories, both recent and past. Perhaps the graceful shimmering wings of a bird ascending, or the emotion of a stranger's eye. I am striving to re-create the intensity of the colors blending them into my vision. What ever they are, I mix them from scratch, combining pigments with one another until they perfectly match my recollections. In essence, I create my own "sign language" as my art ultimately represents how I communicate with others.

In 1988, I became an "abstract painter". Leaving behind me all kind of figurative forms, it gave me a degree of action. I was ge...

Exhibitions

- 1996 : Galerie du Metropole, Monte Carlo
- 1997 : Château de Cap d’Ail, France
- 1998 : Galerie du Park Palace, Monte Carlo
- 2000 : Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2001 : Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2002 : Trajan Gallery, Carmel by the Sea, CA
- 2003 : Joyce Robins Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 2004 : Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 : St. Thomas University, Miami, Fl
- 2006 : Fredrick Clement Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006 : Art Expo, New York, NY
- 2006 : Navta Schulz Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2007 : Coldsprings Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 2008 : ArtMiami, Miami, FL