Presentation of my approach
I opened my eyes to this world on a spring day in 1964.
I spent my entire childhood and adolescence with a pencil in my hand.
It has remained my main tool throughout my career as an architect and project manager.
I bought my first camera when I was 15. Photography then became a passion.
My mode of operation had become primarily visual, enthusiastically capturing moments in my environment, both in the little black box and through the many clicks in my head.
A pencil in one hand and since then a camera in the eyes.
This passion translated into a particular attention to the present during the shots, but also into the magical development of the image during the countless photo lab sessions.
This practice has developed my sensitivity, a capacity to marvel, even at very simple things, a desire to try to reveal the light of this world and of our humanity rather than revealing its dark sides.
Apart from thematic shots, this vigilant attention to the present is also supported by the immediacy allowed by the Smartphone, this camera that I always have in my pocket, a little lighter than my Nikons.
My encounter with watercolour was a revelation. It threw me out of my comfort zone. Water on paper lives its own life. I found myself facing a process that was a little out of control. Working in doubt. It's also a learning process, a physical encounter with the elements that requires letting go and therefore a liberation of gesture. And I'm still learning every day about working with water, understanding and respecting this living material.
A pencil in one hand and brushes in the other.
My modest practice isn't going to revolutionize international contemporary art. I simply enjoy putting on paper impressions of my inner world shaped by a regular meditation practice. Some watercolours are also a translation of perspectives and questions about how the world and our humanity are doing today.
