Jean-Claude Bertrand

Through his work, Jean Claude Bertrand offers a visual exploration of the senses, memory, and the relationship with the living. His painting awakens an attentive awareness of the world through light, matter, rhythms, sounds, smells, and flavors.

The Painter explores the notions of temporality, perception, and transmission. Each work thus constitutes a space of projection, resonance, and presence.

The singularity of Jean Claude Bertrand's work lies in his ability to translate the vibration of reality. His painting does not represent, it restores: it captures an invisible resonance between things, a tension between elements. Through a living, open, and sensory abstraction, he composes his works as spaces of perceptive experimentation, where matter becomes language and color, memory.

His work is situated at the crossroads of the arts, the senses and memories, like a sensitive and universal language which links perception, matter and humanity.

Jean Claude Bertrand grew up with the deep conviction that he would become a painter. At a very young age, he demonstrated a profound artistic sensibility that led him to attend the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Nancy, from which he graduated in 1970. His academic training gave him a rigorous mastery of drawing, composition, and art history, while nurturing a freedom of expression that he would develop over the decades.

He set up his studio in Astaffort, in the southwest of France, and for over twenty-five years has been developing a demanding and sensitive body of work, acclaimed for its singularity and sensory depth. His work, exhibited in France and internationally, explores memories, rhythms, light, and the musicality of color through collections such as Nature, Music, Perfume, Wine, Writing, and From Oil to Gold.

Jean-Claude Bertrand bases his artistic research on sensory memories, the musicality of color, and the cycles of life. Through matter, light, and time, he explores visual rhythms and the structuring of the sensory in pictorial space.

His works are part of private collections in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Morocco.