Born 1943 in Paris. Studied painting and journalism. Made his first one man show in Paris 1973. In 1980 he establishes a printing studio. From 1985 he concentrates on carborundum engravings. His graphic has been universally exhibited with success. Since 1996 he makes his own paper to support his painting.
I just love paper. It can be as soft as silk, as rough as a crocodile skin, as sweet as beloved hand. For my carborundum engravings I use a very heavy handmade paper of 600 gr per square meter. It comes from Moulin de Larroque, a paper mill from the 15th century in southwestern France. It has been specially developed to resist pressures sufficiently heavy to enable the goffering to be achieved which satisfied my requirements for the engravings.
The last couple of years I have started to make my own paper to support my painting. My idea was to combine painting and sculpture, and for that you have to follow your own way.
I decided to establish a paper workshop in my studio in the south of Spain. The reason is simple. The Spanish sun dries the paper rather quickly – one or two days – and the solar energy is effective, free and clean. I use cotton pulp and rags and of course water. That is all. I usually start with some scraps in order to give me the direction, like a musician starting with a note. It is around this material – a shell, a piece of rusted iron found on the beach – that I start the sculptural process to form the pulp or letting it find its own way.
I work in the open air surrounded by mountains and the sea and mother nature is the key word of my painting process. I use mostly natural earth that I find while travelling: volcanic earth of the Almeria desert in Spain, ochers of Roussillon in Provence, red and green earth of Italy, fine sands and crushed shells of Portugal, ashes…The oxidation of metal directly on the paper is also my tool and of course all the pure pigments which I buy as powder and that I mix with acrylic medium. Every painter sometimes feels that he is an alchemist. I feel it very deeply.
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