Biography

I was born in 1970, in Béthune, in the north of France, but it took a long time before I started working with clay, when 2-dimensional was no longer satisfactory.
In 1986, I modeled small nightmarish creatures in painted clay and wired framework (for example, the 30cm high carnivorous greenfly) but I quickly turned to more complex wire meshed structures coated with painted polyester resin. One of those creatures, modeled in 1986 (and sold since then!), was fastened to the roof of my parents’ house but had to be taken off because of some neighbours’ complaints…and of the mayor’s ! (You must know that the creature was some sort of 3 meter high creeping monster, half way between a lizard and a man)
Also, for some months, a sort of massive 2.10 meter high mutant (sold since then) uncomfortably sat on the passenger’s seat in my tiny Lancia Y10.
In 1992, after preparing for entrance to the grandes écoles, I made up for lost time and made my first robot called “The Thinker” (arc welding, iron framework and ultimately, a 100% resined head)
By building those robots which were an expression of mixed humanity and fears, I aimed to underline our questioning about the meaning of our own lives.
In 1999, following that technical and artistic research, I completed the scenario of a science fiction comic strip with black atmosphere, inhabited with monsters like the hero himself in certain aspects.
I also tried relief paintings ( for example, a self-portrait which, seen from a 30cm distance, reveals a circular Word text relating one of my nightmares and , see, from a 5meter distance, the superimposition of the previous texts reveals the narrator’s black and white face imprisoned in the text)
With a scientific training background (teacher’s diploma in physics and chemistry), I must admit that I transpose into my works a great part of my fears which, so far, can only be soothed by being materially moulded.Modeling is a great source of delight but selling (which I started doing in October 2008) would be a further step towards sharing and recognition.