Alexis Hervieu

Special Effects makeup artist by training, I quickly turned to areas such as sculpture, molding ... painting was still present but difficult to apply, I could not express the feelings on the canvas. I did several jobs as diverse and varied, ranging from cook to dental technician assistant or even appliance delivery ... but I always attached myself to the need to create, thus allowing me to escape.

Coming from the 80s / 90s culture, I have always cultivated this spirit in my creations, going from a Lego molding to a giant PEZ light fixture one meter high. Today, we find in the canvases, very pronounced, intense, vivid colors, a memory of this atmosphere of those years. Following a terrible disappointment in my life, the painting was obvious to me. The colors mingled with each other with a certain ease, the gesture was guided naturally, thus allowing me to evacuate all this sadness, bitterness, anger that I had in me.

Painting allows the World to transmit what it feels, whether abstract or figurative, it doesn't matter, the part of the imagination always remains there, present, present in each of us, and it is by rediscovering this childish imagination. , creator, let the magic happen. Instinct, intuition ...