About
The artist,
Australian since 1985, I was born in Normandy in 1956.
Visual artist for more than forty years, I worked as book illustrator (Courte-Queue/ Cliptail by Gabrielle Roy - Roch Carrier), set designer, book designer, Art Director and Creative Director in my twenties so that I could fulfill the pursuit of painting.
I established Mural in Sydney in 1985. Murals are an art form that I aim for; I work on large scale perspectives and that is a challenge. My paintings are I, the painter, and my passion for light & hues in landscapes, outback & urban, day or nightlight. Spatial visual painter, I assimilate old and new techniques. I work with classical tools: drawing, watercolors on paper and painting on canvas with acrylics, yet I also embrace 3D computer design to expand my skills in creating with multimedia. Murals demand perspectives fitting the context to be successful.
Perspectives go beyond the physical reality of a wall transporting one's eyes into space. MURAL has created and produced murals for corporate, commercial, social and private use, for interior and outside walls, including building façade and courtyard. I collaborate on concepts with architects, designers or sometimes other muralists. I organize and work with teams and painters for each project requiring specific skills.
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Major Public work:
1988 Laperouse Museum in Sydney for the Bicentennial of Australia
1992 Lobby and lifts of Dymocks building on George Street, Sydney
1994 Facade of the building of the Alliance Française of Sydney on Clarence Street
2001 Five level light wells of the Salvation Army Women's shelter in Surry Hills, NSW up to
2011 many walls for private and commercial commissions
2012 Painter in the team of Peter Day's "What Bird is that" in Surry Hills
2012 Maxim, VIP club in Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam
2013 Limited edition of 3 series for the resort, Paradise Cove, Mauritius island
2014, 2015, 2016 still working painting on new projects
2018 Nimbin community Center. Nimbin NSW Australia
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Major exibitions
2017 Urban Paradise Gallery Queensland
2017 Château d'Oraison, France, Nuits du Têt
2013 Mortimore Prize, Finalist Waterscape and Surrealism category
2012 Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, The great Unknown
2012 Finalist Sydney Fringe Festival
2012 Finalist Mortimore Prize, Waterscape category with “Harbor Sailing”
2012 Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst, Oxford Art Prize
2010 Winner of the Oxford Art Prize for Urban Landscape
2010 Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst, Almost Famous Artists
2009 The Laughing Museum, Labrador, Qld
2008 The Laughing Museum, Labrador, Qld
2005 Sauc Gallery, Surry Hills
2004 Finalist Norvill Art Prize, exhibition, Murrurundi, NSW
2004 Sauc Gallery, Surry Hills, Three colours
1998 Gian Carlos Gallery, Woollahra
1997 Blue Horizon Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Wemyss Gallery, Sydney, Orange Blue, solo exhibition
1996 Caulfield Art Complex, Melbourne, Blue Orange, solo exhibition
1996 Eaglehawke Galleries, Sydney
1995 Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Outback, Oodnadatta, solo exhibition
1994 Espace Alliance, Sydney, Kimberley Diaries, solo exhibition
1994 BAEC9 Gallery, Ultimo
1994 Toast II Gallery, Sydney
1993 Espace Alliance, Sydney, Still a Life, solo exhibition
1993 Bridge Street Gallery, Woollahra
1993 Espace Alliance, Sydney, French Heritage Revisited
1992 Espace Alliance, Sydney, Euro Day Art Exhibition
1992 Espace Alliance, Sydney, Mural, solo exhibition
1992 Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong, "friend-Ship", solo exhibition
1990 Council of Mosman
1989 Galleries des Arts, Balmain
1989 Pata Art dealer, Kirribili, 9 x 5 exhibition