Jacques Lamotte

Born in 1957, Jacques Lamotte lives and works in Strasbourg and Montreal. The subject is a landscape, non-existent, always on the job, in the making. The landscape is not anticipated, it is structured during the act of painting, where it is for the painter to give substance to his mental images. So many paintings, so many atmospheres, so many emotions. Painting is the language in which the painter expresses himself, the one the spectator has the privilege of translating for his own use. Painting is the vector of emotion. Depth, colors, contrasts are the vocabulary that everyone will appropriate to start the dialogue. Jacques Lamotte's painting is a universal language, his landscape an archetype. The surface of things, the forms of expression disappear to lead, without questioning or aggression, to dreams, to contemplation. Relentlessly revisited, the landscape softens, becomes indifferent and tends to become one with the ideal landscape. From the world around him Jacques Lamotte extracts and expresses the best.