Philippe Lacote

Philippe Lacôte is a self-taught artist. He led plastic art workshops first for children in his neighborhood, then as part of his job as an educator, for children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities and, later for people with multiple disabilities. Trained in art therapy, he worked as a temporary worker at the IRTS of Lorraine with student educators, in educational techniques on the theme "Line, shapes, colors".

Between abstraction and expressionism, his work is inspired by the diversity of human figures and by nature. His approach is based on freedom and spontaneity, with no other intention than to make, as the children say, "a drawing". He seeks to find this freedom to act by using any technique and medium, acrylic, pastel, ink, watercolor, gouache, cardboard, wood, canvas, paper, to trace a point, an angle, a line, a shape as a point of reference. departure. He traces, searches, scratches and claws, he plays with what he has at hand, brush handle, cutter, scissors ... to get to the end of what is there, present but ephemeral.