Charbey

Painter-Screenprinter

The use of screen printing techniques, discovered very young, and the removal of pigments enhanced with paint allows me to draw a link between these 2 schools.

All of my painting revolves around screen-printed images, drawn here and there, and which, mixed with paint, make my canvases a support for abstract expressionism. But what counts, beyond retinal perception, is the concept of creation, it is to perceive the palpitations of existence.

Being an intermediary, a go-between, between abstraction and the figurative, that's how I want to be perceived. With the canvases taking up the theme of the Bayeux tapestry, I want to testify that art never reaches its end and that there is a form, even a dialectic, of permanent creativity.

Although reasoned at the start, the construction and production of a canvas remains subject to many hazards due to the use of different techniques which, although mastered, often turn out to be capricious. I often say in jest that the presence in my workshop of a Godin stove is sometimes particularly useful.

In fact, even if the initial idea generally manages to succeed, the pictorial approach and its realization are often strewn with pitfalls.

- Jeff Echegut, Artistic Advisor