Maxime Gaillard

Maxime Gaillard, 33 years old

A painter in search of poetry, deeply immersed in childhood.

"My pictorial research is both figurative and decorative. It converges through a reduced chromatic palette, aiming for the full intensity of emotion.

I use a naive collage technique with pre-cut, gouache-painted papers, which lends a sense of fragility to the composition—much like a shaky house of cards ready to collapse, where every ordinary second that passes becomes extraordinary.

Embroidery—a Proustian 'madeleine' reflecting cross-stitch memories with my grandmother—further allows me to mix mediums."