Chesneau Philippe

Born in 1948 in Orléans, France. Lives and works in the Orléans region.
Philippe Chesneau's work has developed over time, through a free, cross-disciplinary, and profoundly experimental artistic practice where techniques, themes, and series interact without ever settling into a single style.

From drawing to acrylics, from watercolor to mixed media, from pastels to digital painting, and even to engraving and sculpture, each medium becomes for the artist a space for exploration and shifting perspectives. This diversity is never a lack of focus; on the contrary, it reflects a constant desire to explore the sensory possibilities of matter, gesture, and perception.

Philippe Chesneau's universe encompasses numerous artistic territories: portraiture, landscape, genre scenes, still life, gestural abstraction, and thematic series. Some of his work is rooted in an intimate relationship with the landscape and the memory of places, while others delve deeper into fragmentation, erasure, or instinctive expression.

This interplay between figuration and abstraction constitutes one of the essential axes of his work. The image often appears as a phenomenon in transformation: emerging forms, incomplete traces, superimpositions, erasures, and tensi...

St Euverte School: Electrotechnics
Orleans Fine Arts: Architecture
Self-taught in animation, engraving, painting and sculpture

1981 Collective exhibition - Salon des Artistes de Jargeau
1989 Solo exhibition - Maurice Genevoix Museum - St Denis de l'Hôtel
1992 Personal exhibition - Grange de l'Orbellière - Olivet
1993 Collective exhibition - Saint Pierre le Puellier - Orléans
1994 Personal exhibition - Maurice Genevoix Museum - St Denis de l'Hôtel
1995 Collective exhibition - Saint Pierre le Puellier - Orléans
1996 Collective exhibition - 16th exhibition CLE- Chécy
1996 Collective exhibition - Chateauneuf sur Loire
1997 Collective exhibition - Saint Pierre le Puellier - Orléans
1997 Collective exhibition - 17th CLE exhibition - Chécy
1997 Collective exhibition - Festival of eclectic arts - Tuesday
1998 Personal exhibition - Grange de l'Orbellière - Olivet
1998 Collective exhibition - 18th exhibition CLE- Chécy
1998 Collective exhibition - 2nd Eclectic Arts Festival - Mardié
1998 Collective exhibition - 30th Salon des Arts de Beaugency
1999 Collective exhibition - 19th CLE exhibition - Chécy
1999 Collective exhibition - 3rd Eclectic Arts Festival - Tuesday
1999 Collective exhibition - 31st Salon des Arts de Beaugency
2000 to 2004 Sand and Heather Gallery – Saint Benoit sur Loire
2000 Personal exhibition - Castle of Saint Jean le Blanc
2000 Collective exhibit...