It all started from materials: metal was my preference.
I chose to convert metal from scratch, shaping it, distorting it, modelling it… I thus prefer to use rough metal rather than already formed metal parts, scrapped parts for example.
Metal, which too often perceived as a stiff, heavy, cold and dark material, can sometimes become — depending on the changes it has underwent — light, flexible, warm and luminous.
To obtain this result, I have to master different types of metal working, traditional or very modern, both to deform it and to give it its final colour and texture.
Since the time when I started sculpting, I have developed several themes in succession for their richness, both in graphic and plastic expression.
This is how, from the moment when I settled down in Brittany, descriptive themes such as artichokes, foreshore sceneries have appeared in my work; graphic themes such as "Unlikely convergences / divergences" or "Gestures"; or symbolic themes such as the gift…
For over a year I have been working on the "crack" or "cracking" theme, on "bursting".
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I was born in 1946 in Burgundy, in Montbard, the land of Buffon forges, very near the power hammers of the factory where my father worked.
How could I not be attracted to fire and metalwork!
During my technical training, I started to study history of art, attended lectures at Le Louvre museum as a free auditor and very soon got deeply involved in the passion for painting and sculpture books.
In the seventies, as I was working for a boiler-work company, I attempted to create my first pieces of work; but it is only from 1980 that I became able to work on a regular basis in the workshop of a blacksmith, where I then started to create my own sculpture works.
For about twenty years, as I changed employers and moved from region to region.
I however continued creating intermittently.
I became a Breton sculptor and in 2006 I opened my workshop in PORDIC, near Saint-Brieuc, in the Côtes d'Armor department, and since then I have been dedicating myself professionally to sculpture on a full time basis.
I mainly work with steel, but also with stainless steel or copper, while also using aluminium, brass, zinc…
In my workshop I run some vocational placements with one or two trainees who wish to discover metal sculpture and to individual upgrading courses involving shaping and welding operations.
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