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 My first name, it is France. I was born with St Raphaël in the Fifties. I work at home in Puget on Argens small commune in the Var, on the Riviera meadows of Frejus, St Raphaël. My trade, it is art, in all its forms, all its possibilities All the matters, all the techniques can be mixed. But always, with a respect of the harmony, that of the colors which one finds in nature côtoyant itself without never running up against the glance I also think that the artist is not only that which creates, but it is also that which looks at and which feels.
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After studies with Beautiful Arts and a diploma in architecture, I have taught visual arts in colleges and colleges during 20 years. This period has given me the opportunity to discover much of techniques and to work the matters, thus enriching my knowledge. This is what can be found in most of my works where I mix matters and techniques, without restriction, while utilizing elements external with painting (often randomly recovered elements ways and which are the source of my inspirations). I can go thus from reality to imagination while using fragments of nature on the fabric:
- Sands in "Desert"
- Laces in "Weddings"
- Algae in "Breton Emotion"
- Branches in "Sisal plant"
- Feathers in "floral Mixture" etc
Other periods call upon more traditional techniques where I used much oil, inks and the pastels of which the great diversity of colours has allowed me to translate a little unreal world deprived of aggressiveness
During my last time I wanted to exploit the transparency and the evolutionary luminosity of the sun ` while using as support of radiographies that I engrave to condition more or less the light and to which I add according to dried inspiration plants or algae. That gives then tables that can be fixed with a suction cup on a pane and who will move and evolve/move according to daylight. I add also a transparent bottom of color which can be changed with the liking of its mood. I carry out also tables sculptures in transparency which can also be looked in front of another source of light (lamp candle) If my work is diversified, that I find new ideas unceasingly to create with spontaneousness on any support and all forms of creations (tables, objects, jewels, sculptures, etc). The influence of my formation in Beautiful Arts enables me to carry out various works (mural frescos, installations and external interior decorations, stage sets, etc.)
In conclusion, dreaming artist, imaginative and impassioned by all the forms of art, I try to exploit at best this gift that nature gave me.
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