Alain Tardieu

My name is Alain Tardieu, I was born in Lozère in the summer of 1968. From Lozère, I still have its wide open spaces, its lights and its savagery… From the summer when I was born, I may have one vague parfum… At the beginning of adolescence, the need to draw was felt… More than the need to create a link, let's say that drawing allowed me to better live my wild side. Young adult, enjoying living on the high plateau of Aubrac and a beautiful fireplace. So, by the fireside, I began to read books relating the lives of many painters. At the same time I tried my hand at oil painting, letting myself be influenced by the painters of my readings and by the vast landscapes of Aubrac. My painting after the years of learning took other paths ... I got closer to the body, to the portrait of a form of pictorial expressionism. Less afraid of daring to let my emotions and my questions shine through through painting. For a period, painting lived in mute… Like a period of maturation with little or no creation… Since June 2013, it has “come to life again”. Briskly, impetuous without restraint as liberated ... Obsessive ... sometimes violent ... Wanting to live at all costs ... It's all that I feel about her. I know that the journey has only just begun… I feel like a young painter, trying to reach, through this journey made of lines, colors, shadows and lights… the child who is still there…