Frédéric Haire

I was born in 1962 in Paris. That is one of the only certainties about the beginning of my story. For the rest, I have doubts ... These elements of history constitute a light on my artistic journey: My father father was engineer, my foster father painter. Long before I knew that, I studied engineering, and I have always created and painted seriously for nearly 20 years ... Two fathers, two facets, two lines of life conducted in parallel.


Today, at the age of 55, after a period of intense production and artistic presence between 2000 and 2012, followed by a break of a few years, I create again and in a stable posture, a reflection of this double cultural and biological origin .

Draw as you write, tell my story.

By inventing free, spontaneous alexandrines, drawing by writing becomes automatic and the rhythm of the words follows the rhythm of the drawing. Even if most of the time, the texts are illegible, a few words are revealed, and allow to penetrate my universe.

The main thing is to tell my story. To echo that of others. To say that we are what we have lived, what others have made us live. Psalmodier these pieces of life, a little enigmatic, but so clear for all who know how to see them.


Bring harmony and blur the tracks.

The assembly of all these "fragments of life" which leads to something harmonious is a principle that I like very much, and echoes my personal convictions. Difference creates value, complementarity arises wealth. The mosaic composition brings a new point of view, proposes another equilibrium, blurs the tracks.


Mix strength and softness, yin and yang.

The strength of writing, movement, mosaics, soft lace words, energy expelled from Yang, contained in Yin. The symbols used, hidden or not, are posed to construct a universal language, beyond the borders, cultures, individual histories. Transparency provides an extra level of reading.