Painting
Alain Jean-Bart
Alain Jean-Bart is from Lille, France and resides in Victoria B.C. part of each year.
He is fascinated by the traces left by ancient civilizations and aerial photographs of archaeological sites and ruins are an inspiration to him; so are ancient walls with their surfaces peeling off.
Weathered, decayed frescoes move him deeply, as do rusty objects-anything that bears a trace of what was and has been.
Alain Jean-Bart is mostly an experimental artist. He works without any preconceived ideas.
For him painting is a living experience where exploration, chance and second-guessing have their place.
Alain favors drawing, pastels and acrylic on a variety of media. His paintings feature the grooves of time etched in a thick surface marked by diggings, scrapings, excavations, denting, blistering, or smoothing.
His work can be found in private collections in Canada, (Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal and France (Paris, Lyon, Avignon, Lille).
Some recent exhibitions:
2024 Centre culturel francophone, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Ripaille, Paris, France
2021 Fort de Mons, Mons-en-Baroeul, France
2019 Galerie les arts plastiques, Paris, France (collective)
2018 Trounce Alley Gallery, Victoria, Canada (collective)
2017 Atelier A3, Lille, France
2016 Eclectic Gallery, Victoria, Canada. (Collective)
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