lumières sur sun set avenue, 2026

Jérôme Guillet  

Capturing the gaze, producing beauty, touching the heart and provoking an emotion, these 4 elements would be almost enough to define my artistic approach. For me a painting is successful when the viewer enters it, when the painting absorbs the man and the eye likes to get lost in it. I want my paintings to be pleasant to look at both near and far. This is the reason why I add small touches of color, or white, in places that have no particular meaning, but which invite you to travel. A journey into an abstract universe when you get closer to 10 cm from the painting. The figurative is then only a pretext to paint the abstract in the background. "" My painting is not necessarily faithful to the original, the need to balance the composition often leads me to modify certain architectural elements. It's figurative freely inspired by ... For a long time I stuck on certain principles, perhaps because precisely I did not have any academic artistic training. For example, I thought that we had to reproduce reality without cheating, that we had to choose between painting with a brush or a knife, that the use of the rule was to be avoided,… And it was when I realized that nothing was forbidden, that my painting evolved, and that I found my style. "