"The sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything"
John Constable
The late discovery and practice of painting profoundly transformed me and pushed me to radically change my path.
Under the guidance of Adam Cohn, Tsuki Garbian, Yedidya Hershberg, and Deborah Sebaoun, I discovered that figurative painting emerges through abstraction : the painter observes the visible world without naming things.
Merleau-Ponty wrote in Eye and Mind, “The painter brings his body.” It is this sensory experience before it becomes conceptual or intellectual, that I wish to dedicate myself to, drawing inspiration from a continuous dialogue with the art of the past and the painters who guide me : Corot, Morandi, Turner, Constable, as well as Giotto, Van Eyck, Titian, Velázquez, and many others.
From my early years of practice, I developed a deep affinity for plein air painting.
Whether in the Roanne countryside, the Negev desert, Normandy, or Jerusalem, I paint daily - tirelessly capturing the sky, the earth, the trees, the hills, a solitary house, in search of silence and beauty.
Subject to the ever-changing atmosphere and light, plein air painting seeks to capture a fleeting moment.
The studies presented were created in a single session. This method, known as "alla prima" or "premier coup" preserves the spontaneity of the initial gesture and reveals the rawest and most essential version of the creative process.
