GALLERY ART AND MISS

French by nationality and by heart, I was born in Angoulême, homeland of the Valois, in 1970... I hope to die young... as late as possible!

Professional artist residing in Paris, I have been painting and drawing since the age of seven.

Creation, whatever its forms, has always been my passion. Today it has become more than that: a reason for living and a permanent leitmotif.

Strangely, it was poetry that gave me the passion for colors... then the desire to express myself freely through drawing and painting: Charles Baudelaire, Théodore de Banville, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo and more later John Keats, William Blake and other romantic poets of the second half of the 19th century.

I was - and still am - fascinated by the symbolic significance of the associations of words and colors in the scholarly use these poets made of metaphors, periphrases, oxymorons and other surreal images. Among those that appealed to me when I was a child: "see life in pink", "hope for a blue tomorrow", "be green with rage", "yellow laugh", "look gray", "go to blue hour", "having the morale gray as the rain",...

 

Romantic, nostalgic, idealistic, these associations first inspired me to write poems.

Then, combined with music - especially classical and jazz - they fed my imagination to the point of persuading me that painting, which made it possible to define the widest possible palette of colors, was, much more than an art, a language. in its own right, finding its source in the musicality of things.

 

A silent language, of course, but which, unlike words, ignored the borders of language and therefore allowed total freedom of expression...

Artist presented by the Art and Miss Gallery - Paris