Julien Ness

Julien Ness was born in 1978 at the gates of the Parc des Cévennes in the south of France.

His sensitivity led him quickly to use an artistic means of expresssing how he comprehended the primary energy of the surrounding nature. He started with figurative painting, but this limited him in the message he wanted to convey.

Attracted by the culture and landscapes of Asia, he finally understood that he would find there the missing keys to the expression of his Art. He spent 20 years sailing from one country to another: Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China ...

Finally it was in Rodez, a stone's throw from his hometown, on the forecourt of the Soulages museum, that he had the long-awaited revelation.

The great Chinese artist Ma Defan was making there a giant calligraphy on the very ground : the perfect ballance between black and white, and the completely abstract aspect of these chinese characters in the eyes of a frenchman produced a sort of metaphysical shock.

A great friendship then began between the two artists, and Julien Ness' abstract expression never ceased to become clearer, until all that remains on his canvases is the energy in movement.

This movement appears from the manufacture of its supports, where the undulation of the canvases stretched on wooden plates mingles with the folds of the rice paper which is mounted on them. And on these dynamic supports, black and sometimes red translate the breath of Nature perceived by Julien Ness.