In working with this material that I love, I reveal all its aspects in a new way, unknown until now.
The memory of its nature, its life, its history, is transferred to us, and narrates its own essence. What we see is also a little of our own history and our own sensibility.
Painting with wood,
Vision of the nature,
Its nature or ours?
It is up to us to decipher,
and everyone will find a part of oneself.
The raw material is the superposition of sheets of wood veneer (natural or dyed with pigments or oxides), glued layer by layer and compressed to allow the wood fibers to marry.
Sanding through each layer reveals the texture, the fibers and the colors of the wood. It expresses the diversity of the shades within the wood. The essence of this noble matter is reconstructed each time in a different language. Our eye goes through the image like a transparency.
The pictorial construction becomes similar to that of an oil painting.
The wood becomes a picture expressing all of its intensity.
From abstraction to landscaping, my works takes you away in unsuspected dreams and voyages.
Zao Wou Ki, a master painter, forced me to search more deeply in the range of colors. My technique allowing me to reach the abstract, it would have been sad to avoid this detour.
With this medium, I express what I see, what I feel, leaving every one the choice to see a little bit by oneself, with as little certainty as I place in it myself. The wood injects itself into the artwork in a fortuitous and unexpected manner.
Inspired like many other painters (Turner, Monet) by the skies and landscapes of Provence, Brittany or anyplace,
I was certain to find what I was searching for. The result was beyond my expectations. Everything is there, light, colors, the movement of water, the fluidity of the sky. I only need to use the right woods, at the right time, at the right place.
The message is the passing of time, the essence of life. My interpretation is only suggested:
It’s up to you to decipher the message
Everything is imaginable with wood, and why not creating a new approach to contemporary art? Using wood veneer form, I dialog with the material. I marry woods with the inherent unpredictability that gives to the completed artwork an aspect that escapes the artist.
Is this what wood teaches us today? That everything is not predictable, that everything has not been said, that everything remains to be discovered.
Wood remains quite a contemporary art form.