ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
ARTISTIC BACKGROUND & TRAINING
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I started my artistic venture in the year 2000 when I entered Art School as a young 15-year-old. In 2006, I began my career as
an Animation Artist. Then in 2011, I moved to Vancouver and felt the urge to start painting. I painted the people in my life and surroundings. Slowly, my portrait work grew into a part-time job.
Following a considerable amount of positive responses to my painting style, I decided to devote my full attention to Fine Art Painting in 2016.
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Today, my pieces can be found in cities like Paris, Delhi, Dubai, Sacramento, Washington, Vancouver, and Kelowna.
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STUDIES
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2010 | Bachelor's Degree in Digital Art - Brussels, Belgium
2007 | Graphic Design - Tournai, Belgium
2006 | High School Diploma in Illustration - Tournai, Belgium
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Today, my work is more centered on portraiture because a large-scale portrait does not simply occupy a room - it inhabits it. It carries a presence.
It watches, listens, remembers.
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The face I paint may belong to someone deeply loved and lost, someone whose presence is still needed. It may emerge from a commission shaped
by memories, symbols, and fragments of a life. It may be a beloved animal
or a public figure whose image has accompanied someone through time.
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I paint portraits for people who want to live with a presence, not just an image
- to feel connection, memory, and meaning quietly unfolding in their space.
My approach combines expressive portraiture with abstraction.
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I work in acrylic on raw canvas, using layered gestures, controlled restraint,
and negative space to let the face emerge rather than be fully defined.
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The process balances precision and erosion, presence and disappearance.


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English
My Painting
I am a Kelowna-based artist. I was born in Roubaix, France, but I grew up in both France and Belgium.
I earned a bachelor’s degree in Digital Art in Brussels. My passion for fine art painting is self-taught.
All expressions come from the same root; everything is energy in different degrees of vibration.
My paintings are an investigation to symbolize energy through movement.
It is expressionist and meditational work.
I paint the aura of a living being, a material, or a place.
Even when I paint portraits, the image is first emotions, and then a figure.
Whether in the presence of a curious public during a live painting, or alone in my studio - nothing is stopping me,
my arms, or my hands ... there is eternity in those moments. The mind races with sudden and abrupt gestures... sometimes soft and tender, sometimes fast and striking, resulting in a variety of emotions with their own unique energy.
I paint to forget my self... to embrace the primordial, universal breath that all beings must take when they are born, and to continue living.
Days when my inner resonance is in harmony with my outer environment - is when the canvas is completed without any hesitation.
I am most influenced by Georges Mathieu, Willem de Kooning, or the philosophy of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy (art of the single brush stroke.)
Some people recognize me as the painter with black gestures, others see my strokes like musical notes from a jazz concert!
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Français
Ma peinture
Je suis un artiste peintre résident sur Kelowna, Canada BC.
Né en France à Roubaix, j’ai grandi en France et en Belgique.
Diplômé d’un bachelier en Art Digital à Bruxelles (animation vidéo).
C’est avec mes talents d’autodidacte que j’ai développé ma passion pour la peinture.
Tout est expression partant de la même origine, tout est énergie à différents degrés de vibration.
L’investigation de ma peinture est de symboliser l’énergie par le mouvement.
C’est une œuvre expressionniste de type méditationel. Je peints l’ora d’un être vivant, d’un materiel ou d’un lieu. Lorsque je peins un portrait, l’image dégage tout d’abord des émotions et ensuite une figuration.
Que ce soit en la présence du public curieux qui observe la procédure de création en direct ou seul dans mon atelier, rien n’arrête mes yeux, mes bras ou mes mains… Éternité de l’instant. L’esprit s’emballe dans une gestuelle brusque et soudaine, douce et tendre, rassemblant une diversité d’émotions qui dégage une énergie unique.
Je peins pour de désire de m’oublier, c’est le devoir de vivre pour embrasser le souffle primordial et universel par qui naissent, éclosent et vivent tous les êtres vivant sur terre.
Il y a des jours où le regard et l’écoute se connectent avec ma résonnance intérieure et celle de mon environnement, c’est alors que la l’évidence de la toile se fait ressentir sans gène.
Mon approche de la peinture s’apparente à celle de grands noms tels que : Georges Mathieu, Willem de Kooning
ou à celle de la philosophie de la calligraphie chinoise et Japonaise (l’unique trait de pinceau).
Certains disent que je suis un peintre à la gestuelle noir, d’autres y voient l’envol des notes de musique d’un concert de jazz!
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