About

My artistic journey revolves around a constant exploration of the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative, the tangible and the ephemeral. A multidisciplinary artist, I navigate between figurative oil painting, abstract acrylic, and ceramics, cultivating a fascination with the contrasts that animate our world. I seek to explore these liminal zones where reality dissolves into the abstract, where matter suggests the immaterial, where time leaves its mark on abandoned places as well as on the depths of the sea. My figurative oil painting is inspired by the traces of time and abandonment. During my travels, I am drawn to deserted buildings—deserted stairwells, silent classrooms, faded frescoes—witnesses of forgotten histories. As a diver and underwater photographer, I draw a striking parallel between these terrestrial structures and submerged wrecks, united by the same poetry of decay: walls dripping with mold evoke structures eaten away by salt, calcified objects reminiscent of bleached corals. My oil technique begins with a solvent wash creating an effect of submersion, then I patiently build up layers, composing my dichromatic palettes to accentuate the atmosphere of strangeness and suspended temporality. At the same time, my abstract acrylic practice offers me a more instinctive and gestural dimension. This medium allows me a freedom that contrasts with the precision of oil: I favor direct contact with the canvas, experimenting with marouflage, wiping, dripping, and unconventional tools. This approach becomes the territory for an exploration of time and movement, where I visually translate intangible concepts—speed, instinct, spontaneity—giving rise to a form of visual poetry, sometimes tinged with environmental awareness. My ceramic practice naturally extends this research into three dimensions, allowing me to explore themes of transformation and erosion. Clay, a primordial material marked by water and fire, becomes the ideal medium to express the processes of metamorphosis observed. I play with textures that sometimes recall the corroded surfaces of shipwrecks, sometimes the peeling walls of deserted buildings. Despite their differences, these practices share common concerns: the question of time and its trace on matter runs through all of my work. Water is a unifying element: literally present in my underwater subjects, it is revealed metaphorically in the dilution techniques and becomes the transformative agent in ceramics. Methodological contrasts create a fertile tension that fuels my artistic development: the contemplative slowness of oil contrasts with the intuitive speed of acrylic, while ceramics introduces its own temporalities, between waiting times and the unexpected events of firing. My approach fundamentally aims to capture the poetry of transformation and the melancholic beauty of the ephemeral. This exploration of contrasts—between figuration and abstraction, control and surrender, land and sea—is the driving force of my creativity and defines the singularity of my artistic voice in its quest for balance between tradition and experimentation.