I was born
in North France, and lived as a child in Normandy.
When I was six months old, my father, a talented
landscape painter, put in my podgy fingers a pencil,
and from that moment I have never stopped drawing,
characters most of all.
My
childhood was lulled by ghost stories, books reading
alone with a torch under my blanket at night,
theatre shows on the banks of the Seine...I remember
one day when a circus came to our little Norman
village. I spent my days there while they set-up.
From then on I became very passionate by what I’m
pleased to call “The Red Curtain World”.
So at age
8, I decided to become an illustrator, I wanted to
“Make People Dream” (especially children if I
could).
Ten years
later, I’m in Lyon, at Emile Cohl Art School, which
is very well known here in France. My major is
in illustration professional medium. I have learned
illustration, animation, comic strips and painting,
and now am qualified in the field.
In my
gallery you will find one of my projects, which I
loved doing (and I'm still fascinated with), about
the theme of “freaks”. I started loving them when at
age 14, I saw the Tod Browning 30’s film “Freaks,
the monstrous parade”, late one night on a German
cultural channel (“Arte”). I researched the subject
at my colleges great library (looked like a Harry
Potter library to me!) and found an old Almanach
named the “Crapouillot” in which I found a lot of
articles about human oddities. But their deformity
wasn’t the point of my interest: “they’re human!” I
told myself.
It was all
I could imagine, what's behind the gaze, what's
behind the performer, what's behind the physique?
Great personalities, most of the time! By drawing
them as characters, I wanted to express my
tenderness for them, I find each individual
very beautiful in their differences. So I took my pencil and brushes, and
started to work, and will try to fulfil this gallery
sometimes.
You can
also see my other stuff at my blog , Have a nice
visit, Cheerio!
