Peindre l'arc en ciel, 2025

Bernard Saint-Maxent   Best sellers Emerging artists

This is much more than a work of art: a scene frozen in mid-action.
Signed by Bernard St Maxent, this unique piece blends painting, sculpture and storytelling in a spectacular composition under a glass case (30 x 30 x 7 cm).

At first glance, a perfectly controlled rainbow gradient catches the eye – a smooth, vibrant, almost hypnotic surface. But very quickly, the work shifts into another dimension: a three-dimensional figure, frozen in effort, seems to literally pull the color out of the painting.

Suspended from a thread, roller in hand, he becomes an actor in the painting itself. Below, open pots of paint, raw, still alive, reinforce this illusion of a moment captured in the midst of a creative gesture.

A striking dialogue between 2D and 3D. Between control and chaos. Between painting and matter.

What if the color wasn't simply applied... but torn off?

Imagine a world where paint doesn't flow from the brush, but where it resists.
Where creating becomes a physical effort.
Almost a fight.

This character does not paint.
He struggles with the material. He pulls, he tears, he extracts the color like raw energy.

Each shade of the rainbow becomes a conquest.
Every action is a victory.

And you, the spectator, are witnessing this suspended moment –
that precise moment when art comes to life before your eyes.

Bernard St Maxent develops a unique artistic universe at the crossroads of sculpture and painting. His work explores the staging of the artistic gesture itself, often through miniature characters that interact with the material.

Her works play with perceptions, blur the lines between reality and illusion, and question the creative process. Each piece becomes a visual narrative where the artist stages… the act of creating.