The painter, using a unique and minimalist technique, creates magical paintings of Christmas landscapes in shop windows. Before a large-scale exhibition in spring 2025 at the Maison des Consuls in the medieval village of Matelles (34).
“If you look closely, it’s a reflection of the landscape in which we find ourselves. Since the drawing is without shadow, it’s as if we’re passing from one dimension to another”. This dimension is that of the Christmas holidays, the windows of the Alesian shops are the expression of the talented style of the artist François Secrève.
Since November, you have necessarily observed it, drawing here a lake caught under the ice, there a majestic deer or even this unicorn with its immaculate white dress. Precisely the theme of the final project of this winter season for the cafe owner and colleague Bastien of the Before café, Place de l’Abbaye. Always with this concern for purity, for a rhythm in the layering of forms that a singular technique driven by white paint, a foam roller and a glazier’s razor, the fruit of many years of practice, provokes.
“It’s a bit like white Conté chalk on a dark support, explains the painter. We can form flat areas, gradients, we explore the texture with a technique that is ultimately quite simple. And the more we move towards simplicity, the more we slide into complexity.
All the Art and the path of the boy, child of a family with artistic sensitivity, whose painting will become his passion. Against all odds. An autodidact who has gone through all the techniques and expressions including the news of an exhibition of large landscape paintings, next April at the Maison des Consuls in the medieval village of Matelles (34), is to be noted with a white stone on diaries…
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