Jean-Charles Toullec

Jean Charles Toullec was born in 1953, he is a French stencil artist from Picardy.

The artistic approach of Jean Charles Toullec did not stop evolving until 2010, that year there took place a dazzling stylistic change in his work. Jean Charles Toullec starts again from zero, and embodies his new life in his works through a style much closer to street art and colored using newspaper cutouts, watercolor that reminds us of Pop Art ...

Artist with mixed lives, his canvases are composed of colored layers that punctuate his paintings. The drips and colors illuminate his sometimes brutal collages .

His paintings tell stories through figures, stylized animals or pop icons. The colors that make up his paintings and their selection is an important process for Jean-Charles, it is through these that he transmits his emotions but also thanks to the words that he inscribes on the bottom of his paintings. Jean Charles toullec is a sensitive painter for whom the transmission of message or emotion through his work is essential.

Jean-Charles Toullec does not hesitate to cover old canvases by letting appear the elements which are under the new layer of collage or paint to give support to the flat areas of color, and sometimes too regular shapes, "to painting, I incorporate collages which are an integral part of the composition and which act in the underlying layers of the final result ".

Once Toullec has prepared the complex backgrounds for his work, he covers them using stencils, which contrasts the patterned backgrounds and the simplicity of the stencils. In Jean Charles Toullec's painting, everything is balanced.

The painter takes advantage of the freedom he has in the choice of his themes and techniques,

he works his works almost permanently by covering, tearing, digging and drawing deep within him before arriving at a result which satisfies him. Painting is much stronger than him and takes him where it wishes, for Jean-Charles Toullec the need to paint is irrepressible.