Background

While atten­ding my uncle pain­ter and sculp­tor Jean TOURET since ear­ly youth, I was immer­sed in the construc­tion of a crea­tive work. He was my main ins­pi­ra­tion and tea­cher. In addi­tion, I was stron­gly attrac­ted by impres­sio­nist pain­ting, Van Gogh, Gauguin, The Fauves, Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Pollock, the Flemish and Italian pri­mi­tives. Also dazz­led by Egyptian pain­tings and bas-reliefs, and indeed African art.

Still, I had to find my per­so­nal way of approa­ching dra­wing, pain­ting and sculp­ture. I have always been inter­es­ted in edu­ca­tio­nal methods of dis­co­ve­ring one­self and the sur­roun­ding life. In my attempt to ‘see’, I tra­vel­led along many reli­gious, poli­ti­cal, social, psy­cho­lo­gi­cal and phy­si­cal paths. As I felt com­mit­ted to the repre­sen­ta­tion of human beings and their world, my life choices have been gui­ded by inter­est in life and all its aspects. I felt an urge to share many life expe­riences, both indi­vi­dual and col­lec­tive, which led me to earn a living on many jobs and in the same time explore their backgrounds.

Thus, I went through seve­ral major stages : lear­ning the tech­nique, the know­ledge of human beings in their lives, the lear­ning of my own know­ledge, and final­ly the rea­li­sa­tion of works – all that car­ried out head-on.

Drawing was my first sup­port, along with essays of pain­tings and sculp­tures. I also went through a few sab­ba­ti­cal per­iods. Today, in Langeac, I am expe­rien­cing both dai­ly and crea­tive life.