APESANTEUR (2021) Painting by Joël Waterkeyn

Artistic approach in painting: I leave things to chance with lines and areas of color applied instinctively, with a brush and most often with a knife, according to my emotional state of the present moment. Sometimes in an altered state of consciousness during this "action painting", being trained in self-hypnosis. From these first patterns, I "build" the work by seeking a balance in the composition both in terms of form and chromaticism. Acrylic. Relatively rough lines, rarely geometric; more or less thick multilayers, sometimes drips.
I "consciously" have no visual support nor any desire to reproduce any physical reality. Some shapes, some patterns may resonate with known shapes but this is not my intention and it depends on everyone's perception.
I favor forms that “work the eyes”: visual exploration of the different resonances of the work through visual circuits that I wish to make fluid without defining too dominant points of fixation of the gaze.
Current influences and sources of inspiration: American Abstract Expressionism with
de Kooning, Pollock, Mitchell, Rothko, Krasner and many others.
Lyrical abstraction with Mathieu; Dubuffet, Atlan, Hantai. Sensitive to Impressionism (Monet).

Workshop in France in Juziers (Yvelines) in the Seine Valley.

Expos 2023:

Current: MATIGNON SAINT HONORÉ Gallery 34 avenue Matignon Paris 08 (painting-sculpture)

Galerie Étienne de Causans 25 rue de Seine Paris 06 from June 12 to 21 and from July 3 to 12

Galerie Vivienne 30 Passage Vivienne Paris 02 from March 13 to 22. Abstract bronze paintings and sculptures (unique pieces)

Salon des Beaux Arts de Garches from March 17 to April 2, Hall of the Town Hall

ART3F Nantes from March 10 to 12 Manoir Antiquités Gallery

ART CAPITAL 2023 Salon des Indépendants Grand Palais Éphémère Champ de Mars Paris from February 15 to 19. Several very large formats.

Galerie Thuillier 13 rue de Thorigny 75003 from February 3 to March 2.

ART 3F Paris Gallery of the Sun 27-29 January.

Expos 2020 to 2022:

Galerie Vivienne December 2022

ART 3F Marseille Gallery of the Sun October 2022

Galerie Francis Barlier 36 rue de Penthièvre Paris 08 in May and September 2022

42nd International Artistic Salon of Haute Loire in Puy en Velay August 2021 Prize obtained: Prize for Abstraction 2021. 43rd Salon August 2022

ART CAPITAL2022: Salon of French Artists and Salon of Independents Grand Palais Éphémère Champ de Mars Paris February 15 to 20, 2022

Galerie Thuillier (several exhibitions per year)

Autumn Show Oct. 2020 "Convergences" Group Paris Champs Elysées

Member of the Salon du Puy en Velay and the Society of Fine Arts of Boulogne

Member of ANAF (National Association of French Artists)

Member of the SNSP (Sculptors and Visual Artists Union)

Member of the Friends of the Salon d'Automne

AKOUN QUOTATION: 1500 E for a P15 format (65 by 50 cm)

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists