Collecting a sketch means entering the origin of the artwork. Through this article, I share my vision of the preparatory drawing, its importance in my work as a contemporary figurative painter, and the way a collection of sketches can find an elegant and discreet place within a contemporary interior.

Looking at a work of art is never a trivial gesture.
It is a way of standing before the world — at a distance, or very close.

This painting belongs to a broader exploration of human posture as a silent language.
The body does not tell a precise story here.
It suggests a way of being in the world — fragile and stable at once.

Some images are simply looked at.
Others are kept — like a quiet breath of beauty held within a room.

Limited edition art prints belong to this second realm:
works that carry the gesture, the signature, and the intention of the artist, even when they take a different form from the original painting.

In my figurative practice, each print opens a doorway into a world where the everyday becomes an inner stage.
A shoulder brushed by soft light.
A rumpled sheet.
A moment suspended at the edge of silence…
These fragments of life are reborn in Fine Art prints crafted as genuine collector’s pieces.

Through Sketching the Moment, I share a gentle and accessible approach to drawing.
This book is not a technical guide but an invitation to dare — to observe, to sketch, and to live the present moment through your own lines.

The Memory of Walls

Some places keep speaking long after we have left them.
Their walls retain the trace of gestures, of absences, of suspended breaths.
In Décrochages, I invite the viewer to listen to that silence —
the silence of a world frozen between care and abandonment.

Contemporary figurative painting here reveals a rare power:
that of giving voice to the inanimate.
A sink, a few pipes, orange stripes, a forgotten mask —
so many signs of a time when hygiene became both a symbol of anxiety and of redemption.
True to my visual language, I blend architectural precision with pictorial emotion.
Each line breathes with tension — between order and chaos, measure and fragility.

Découvrez un chef-d'œuvre captivant qui vous plonge au cœur d'une dystopie monétaire inquiétante. Dans “La cour des rats”, l'artiste défie les limites de la réalité en créant une scène fascinante où une cour de rats examine avec discernement une œuvre d'art elle-même en mise en abîme. Cette toile 100 x 100 révèle les profondeurs de notre monde financier, exposant les travers et les paradoxes de notre société consumée par l'argent.

Il est des gestes si simples qu’on en oublie la poésie.
Il est des matins où le corps, à peine éveillé, cherche à renouer avec lui-même.
Et il est des instants qui, sous l’œil du peintre, deviennent des mondes.

C’est dans cette tension fragile entre le banal et l’essentiel que s’inscrit La fille au lever du jour, une œuvre peinte à l’acrylique sur toile (100 x 100), réalisée en 2024.

In almost every one of my paintings, there is a gentle imprint —
a subtle vibration, a familiar curve, a light that doesn’t entirely belong to me.
Her name is Camille.

Camille is my partner, my agent, my mirror — and my muse.
Not in some mythical or distant sense. No.
Camille is here, close, every single day.
She is the gaze that questions with me, the breath that moves through my silences, the voice that tells me:
“It’s almost there. Keep going.”