Who are you?

 I am an artist who lives in central France, my home is in the countryside near Lyon, where there are small mountains, forests and little rivers that inspire me. 

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 For 20 years, I have been drawing  & painting in my studio almost every day from early morning to late at night. 

 When I'm not working in my studio I am involved with environmental organizations and archeology.

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How do you prepare your work?

Since 2016, i practice mostly drawing in black ink on thick paper. I occasionally use colored pencil or oils.  

I don't know what I will create when I  start a new drawing.  I avoid the question of  "what to draw ?" as an approach to allow the subconscious to express itself.  This brings out deeply buried things from within myself.  When I draw it's as though I am also an archeologist releasing objects out of the sands of the mind.

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 I've  developed my process over the last few years in which I use small dots in place of line drawing.  I got here by looking for the slowest possible technique that would take me out of the traditional system of writing. The slow, rhythmic repetition of dot by dot application becomes almost a trance like meditation for me.  I start randomly, anywhere, depositing dots until a vision takes hold of me and a figure, symbol or image finds its place on the paper.  Because of this lack of preparation, model or sketch it is a mysterious composition until it has fully taken form, only then that its meaning becomes known to me. 

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This technique, the long hours of production (often 8-10 or more consecutively), my studio enviroment, the paper and ink... all combine to take on a ritual like character for the creation of this art and has become my favorite way to work.  

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What are your subjects?

I am passionate about prehistory, as well as natural phenomena and things wild.  My work may seem to represent a distant past but it is actually very anchored  to the present and subjects that currently exist in my life.  I've been told that my art, "gives the impression of timelessness ,where a kind of interior mythology mingles in a natural setting".  

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The figures, often animals,  are almost always represented in profile.  The background of wild pattern is a matrix inseparable from the figures, similar to the rock that holds prehistoric cave paintings.  This imagery, every detail, is  a result of liberation from the subconscious. They become new archetypes and symbols charged with new meaning from their relationships to each other in connection to my life.