As of my first tours in Italy, I was very touched by the very rare atmosphere of works of the Italian Renaissance which I discovered during my visits. I could not say if in fact the landscapes Tuscan helped me to discover pictorial works or if on the contrary paintings opened the eyes to me on the magic of this countryside. But it is certain that I was deeply moved by these regions and that I am then frequently gone back there to learn the language in order to better understand the spirit of it. The paintings, the frescos, the rétables, the polychrome sculptures impressed me so much so that I wanted to carry on an activity close to these works. It is indeed at this period that I chose to direct myself towards a work marked by the spirit of Cinquecento. I then discovered the Flemish painting of the XV° century, in which I found certain emotions of Italian painting.

Very quickly my interest went towards painting on a support in volume. Work in three dimensions indeed makes it possible to introduce additional perspectives with those which one uses on the plane surfaces. I had also the desire to transform the objects which surround us in order to give to our daily framework this so particular atmosphere. Thus gradually I associated a piece of furniture with each pictorial unit. The supports allured me: old wood which has various qualities according to essences, which have a history sometimes rather complex, one could say a life, mortars with so various qualities according to the way which one carries them out, and who evolve in time, meetings between the materials which support a great number of conjugations and as many expressions.

In Paris, in the district of Marais where I grew, I was likely to meet George Guillot, a Master of painting on wood, well-known of the specialists He agreed to teach me its art during a few years and gave me especially a strong motivation to continue my search on the old techniques. After its disappearance, it is in the workshops of Tuscany that I with could continue to look further into my technical knowledge and to enrich me by new styles.

The spirit of work in workshop, such as the artists of the Renaissance practised it, at the same time cordial and friendly, seems very favorable to an creative environment and essential to me to find the pleasure of the particular atmosphere of this time This is why for two years I have chosen to share my search and my creations with Luigi Madéo who bring to the workshop sensitivitie, culture, and experiment of painter. I wish that this Internet site reflect the most accurately possible the spirit of what I summarized in these some lines.