Stephane Jean

I was born in La Malbaie, Quebec in 1968. I now live in Gatineau and in Fort Lauderdale. My mind at the same time scientific and artistic leads me to an approach combining both the thought and the intuitive. To my sources of inspiration that are natural materials such as wood and rock, the man’s body or animals like bull, i add an entirely abstract language based in part on the randomness of composition. For my acrylic paint work, i use different techniques, especially pasting, glazing, pouring, ink to develop the textures, tones, emphasizings, forms that characterize my work. The superimposition of abstraction and figuration, often present in my work, results from a strange geometry. Using blue, ochre and red colours, i create my paintings that mix substance, space, air, water and life, in a manner always different, sometimes more realistic sometimes more imaginary, incorporating singular elements, where behind the final structure is hidden an emotional approach subject to the whim of instinct and happenstance. This is why, like life, even though each of my paintings is often unprecedented and astonishing, my work as a whole displays a great unity.