 I
have been drawing for as long as I can remember. From the rather
hard primary school seat in my native village of Broyes in the
Marne to the various chairs - including some rather comfortable
ones - I've sat in throughout my career, I've always been
drawing, sketching, erasing and shading - filling my exercise
books, diaries and notepads. I had never really considered taking
up a particular painting technique, but since 1997, chance and
circumstance have led me to watercolour! Ten years on, I still
don't really know what first drew my gaze and filled me with the
desire to paint, and I find it difficult to talk about my work.
What I do know is that I love painting the heavens as seen from
below, old trucks put out to grass and rusted by the elements,
facades of houses that have been weathered by the passage of years,
the rocks, earth and stone that have gone into building our homes
and churches, objects cobbled together from odds and ends, and
landscapes, from the most inviting to the most intimidating ;
I also love painting the posters that form unexpected, sometimes
provocative bedfellows on walls throughout our land.
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