Jean-François Clair

Since the 1980s, Jean-François Clair has been painting the magnificent landscapes of the Emerald Coast in watercolor, then in oil and acrylic.

In 2011, he was accepted as a student for four years at the Ateliers beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris (Professor Jürgen Stimpfig). At the same time, he began "Surrealist-minimalist" painting, known as "unfinished". Exhibits at the Village Suisse in Paris

From 2015 to 2022, he painted - and modeled clay - in the workshops of Saint-Lunaire, then at the Académie Malouine d'Arts Plastiques in Paramé. One of his paintings (Unifished Target) was exhibited in 2018 in New York, at the Saphira & Ventura Gallery (near Vth Avenue).

He has also exhibited in Saint-Lunaire and Saint-Briac. Public Prize in 2024, in Pleurtuit. His best-known figurative works are: The Star, the Belle-Poule and the Recuperance, and: The Lighthouse of the Black Stones (personal collection).

The painters whose works he particularly likes are Le Gréco, Pierre Soulages, Serge Poliakoff, Tom Wesselmann, Niki de Saint Phalle. The painters of the CoBrA movement, notably Karel Appel. As designers: Odillon Redon and... Victor Hugo.