Why do you paint ? :
This is a haunting question and not an easy one to answer. These would be some of my answers:

The purpose of painting is to bring outside what is inside : the path followed by my own mind seems often erratic and out of grip. Representing what is going on brings some light in the confusion and loosen what is jammed.

At the origin, there is a fleeing image that goes through my mind, the sudden vision of an arrangement of colors and shapes, whose beauty strikes me for some unknown reason. I try to meet this impression again on the canvas. Just like a perfume in the air triggers forgotten memories that one tries to retrieve.

Oftentimes, it is one piece of work that leads to the next. For example, my practice of digital art opens new tracks for my painting, whether it brings a different way to look at pictures or frustrations in front of the virtual images on the screen. I often leave my computer with a renewed desire for painting.

There is also the fascination for the tools and gestures of the craft, the quality of linen, the texture and smell of paint, the mixing of colors, the rubbing of brush against the canvas, the fresh morning light in the studio and all those earthly things that are the raw materials of the painter.

Such are some of the reasons for painting. After that, there is the work itself, made of bursts of light, desperate questioning, lucky finds, doubts… which lead to the magical moment where the artist experiences a perfect match between himself and what is on the canvas.
I have to confess that this bliss does not last long and soon the urge for another piece makes its way.





If my works depicts anything, it is this machinery of thoughts and memories, what is going on in the mind at a particular moment, as thoughts take shape or vanish.