Le vieux ponton – Mediterralis®, 2026

Jiel  

JIEL is a French painter whose artistic career began in the late 1990s.

Self-taught, he first trained by copying the great masters, notably Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, Monet, De Lempicka, Corot, or De La Tour. In 1999, he created one of the first French websites dedicated to the reproduction of classical works, allowing him very early on to work for a French and international clientele.

Starting in 2005, JIEL gradually abandoned copying to dedicate himself entirely to his own creations and develop a immediately recognizable pictorial universe.

The Mediterranean becomes one of his main sources of inspiration: villages of the South, ports, coves, cabanas, umbrella pines, and scenes bathed in light make up a painting that is resolutely contemporary, warm, and colorful.

Working mainly with acrylic brushwork, JIEL builds his works with broad strokes and fields of color, highlighted by irregular dark lines. Material, light, and the simplification of forms occupy an essential place in his work.

This research into material and Mediterranean landscapes leads him to create MEDITERRALIS®, a personal collection in which reliefs, mineral textures, and directed acrylic drips reinterpret the landscapes and shores of the Mediterranean in a resolutely contemporary writing.

For more than twenty years, his works have joined many private collections in France and abroad.

His work is listed in the Guid'Arts Drouot dictionary in 2015, listed by Akoun since 2017 and referenced on Artprice.

JIEL lives and works in Seillans, in the Var, where his studio is open to the public.