White Scarf, charcoal on paper, 29 x 40 cm, coll. particulière

Gesture Drawings

An exploration of the mystery of the inner and outside world in drawing and painting. My work is gestural, graphic and painterly, spiritual. A central theme, the distance in time and space between people and places. 

Gesture and the motion are as important as the drawing itself. The techniques vary according to the situation: the paper and materials used are those I came across at some point.

Once a drawing is made, it does not belong to me anymore. I only retain my own vision of it. 

Each viewer may adapt it to his own experience, desire, opinion and takes part in the process of creation as he sees the image and makes his own vision of it. It is a profound intimate experience, a trip inside one’s self. Thus, the viewer becomes the author. An image seen by a hundred viewers results in a hundred versions of it.

I present here a series of gestural landscapes in contact with  two portraits. The tools and materials used are authentic, organic. Charcoal, paper, bread. Hands, fingers, palms. Gesture drawing as instinctive movement and direct contact with the support and the image, saving the traces of the action.

Like Caspar Friedrich’s Nebelmeer, they are like landscapes of the inside world, contemplated and explored by the traveller. Wide yet intimate, they are dramatic; propitious for a metaphysical or spiritual escape as while eye-travelling the images one might explore his or her own self.

Girl, charcoal on Paper, 37 x 29,7 cm, coll. particulière

Mounts, charcoal on paper, 198 x 150 cm, coll. particulière

charcoal on paper, 92 x 100 cm, coll. particulière

Mount (i, ii & iii), charcoal on paper, 42x59,4, coll. particulière