After twelve years as an engineer, I turned toward the visual arts.

I began exclusively with portraiture. Why? Because portraiture represented a great challenge for me.

“The raison d’être of a difficulty is to make us evolve.”
— Sri Aurobindo

Faithful to this principle, I experimented with various mediums: tempera on traditional gesso, encaustic, pastel on abrasive surfaces, and watercolor.

These ancestral techniques, based on natural materials, ensure durability while respecting the environment.

Later, I added still lifes and landscapes. Whatever the subject, I often discover, once the painting is complete, unexpected forms — animals, figures — that reveal themselves like manifestations of my unconscious.

My parallel research on abstraction vs. figuration and on aesthetics as a science of form has distanced me from official circuits, but has also enriched me profoundly. It opens new ways of reading contemporary art — as both an individual journey and a reflection on society.

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