Grieving woman / Femme en deuil Painting

I see art as a universal language, which allows people from different cultures, to communicate with each other. Very influenced by symbolism and figurative art, I particularly like the world of surrealists. But it is not only in the codes of the surrealism that I draw my inspiration from. I like to let a part of poetry and melancholy in my works. Oil painting has always been my favorite medium, because it requires rigor, technique and flexibility. My work can be depicted as figurative art, although it is highly symbolistic. My paintings depict loved ones, friends, relatives or myself, in often tragic or violent situations. Like an investigation that is offered to the spectators, my work is an enigma to be elucidated. A journey to the heart of my most intimate anxieties and questions, in the form of figurative allegories with multiple symbolic keys. My paintings essentially questions the incomprehension of Western man facing death. A “mismatched” event, according to the expression of Vladimir Jankélévitch, which has been, since the origins of humanity, a pressing invitation to think, and which today seems to have lost its questioning force.