From the fast lane of European Formula One Grand Prix to the meditative stillness of the Blue Mountains, three decades have passed. My personal and artistic journey has been a long eventful one. I was born in Normandie France and studied at L’École des Beaux Arts. A few years later in Paris I worked as a freelance photographer, one of my jobs being in Formula One Grand Prix.

My first solo exhibition in Australia was at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery in Sydney in 1983, followed by 13 others in various art galleries in Sydney and the Blue Mountains—the Global Gallery in Sydney, Gallery Lane in Leura and now Katoomba Fine Art Gallery. I have also been in numerous group shows and my paintings have been selected in numerous art prizes—Mosman, Willoughby, The Alice, etc. In between I went back to study from 1992 to 1994 for a BA in Visual Arts at UWS Nepean.

My last three solo exhibitions have been on Asian philosophy. “I Turn Myself To Stone” was a meditation on Chinese /Tibetan Buddhist philosophy on peace of mind versus anger. “I Ching Therefore I Am” was an exploration of the Book of Changes (I Ching) about the unconscious. Visually I wanted to work with the 64 hexagrams.

“Happy Wandering” was a contemplation on the poetry of Chuang-tsu’s Inner Chapters. “Happy Wandering” is a body of work that life has brought together. It is the culmination of my French culture and visual arts background, and my interest in Chinese and Japanese cultures and aesthetics. The minimal meditative space in Japanese architecture and landscaping has some influence on how I see and paint.

Life has brought together the European, the Asian and Australian in me. In the Australian bush I pay attention to fractals in nature, I love seeing the endless minute repetitions in nature that are yet slightly changing and being the same entity as it was at the beginning of formation.

My paintings tend to be conceptually based from Chinese or Japanese influences mixed with a contemporary Western sensibility and my connection to the Australian landscape. The result is a marriage of cultures between East and West.

Website Links To My Work
www.katoombafineart.com.au

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