Drawing and colors
are no different. While painting one is also drawing. The more
colors harmonize with each others, the more precise the drawing
will be. When color is at its best, form stands out. Here is
the secret of sketching and painting, through contrasts and
relationship between all those elements. Art is in harmony
with nature, and parallel to it. – Cezanne
Cezanne is not painting
a man, an apple or a tree. He is using all of them to do a
painting with a very special sound which will become a “picture’ – Kandinsky
One doesn’t imitate or copy beautiful things in nature,
one admire it, that’s all. With his own talent, the artist
will do a similar masterpiece, different from nature” – Fernand
Léger “painting’s functions”.
Living at the time in the
great city of San Francisco, USA, I started art a self taught
artist on live model from 1980 to 1982. Then I registered at City
College art department and studied with Rick Rodriguez from 1982
to 1984 and then again from 1991 to 1993. Rick was an abstract
painter and amateur of Kathy Kollwitz’s work., an expressionist
German painter and sculptor whom I admire. From 1986 to 1990 back
in Paris, I studied classical art with Michel King, seascape watercolorist
and painter, also a great teacher and lover of classical art.
Even though I produced works in charcoal, sanguine, pastel, oil
and did collage during all those years, the real need to become
a professional artist happened in 1997. At that time I only used
soft pastel for its soft, vibrant and sensual colors interested
me a lot and seemed to fit my own personality. In 1999, I met
the great English portraitist Ken Paine whose strength and loose
style fascinates me so much to this day. He gave me the inner
self expression “lâcher-prise” that one can
find in my portraits with pastel and of course, in the new abstraction
with oil pointings that I have been developing since 2005. That
last style seems also influenced by Pollock’s work that I
have been admiring early on in different museums in the States
while living there. I live and work in Paris.
Registered under the Maison des Artistes in Paris, France
I am also represented under the
international websites :
www.artmajeur.com/nmmathieu and under absolutearts.com
My studio is opened all year
long (morning) on appointment. Please check the number or email
below.
