Alegria (2013) Painting by Christian Pelletier

Christian Pelletier was born in Paris in 1949.
His innate taste for shapes and colors quickly turned into a passion for drawing, and at the age of 15, he decided to make it his life's choice. It was at the École des Arts Appliqués de Paris that he learned, for six years, to master and channel his natural talents, specializing in Product Design. Along the way, he also started his own family and opted for a certain professional stability within a design firm. But this lacked color and light… Cézanne's landscapes fueled his imagination and drove him south.

Friends had settled in Cassis, so the opportunity was too good to miss, and he and his wife decided to join them. It's a dazzling joy to discover the multiple riches of Provence's landscapes, to immerse oneself in their infinite variety.

An opportunity arose in advertising, and thanks to his multidisciplinary training, Christian Pelletier now oriented his career towards graphic design. First as a graphic designer, then as an Art Director in various agencies, he finally set up his own design studio with three partners. The arrival of computers soon revolutionized all his working methods, certainly opening new horizons for him but depriving him of this direct contact with material and color, of this freedom of the pencil stroke that allowed him to fully express himself. With the computer restricting the artist a little too much, Christian Pelletier felt the need to return to his roots, to the sensuality of creating colors on a palette, to the pleasure of letting his brushes wander over a canvas as his inspiration takes him.

Very quickly, after a few oil and acrylic works on various themes, it became clear: nature constitutes his main source of inspiration, and particularly so at the moment, the lushness of flowers. Exploiting their infinite diversity of shapes and colors, and playing with light with precision, Christian Pelletier offers us a wide variety of compositions: symphonies of softness and finesse, lyrical flights of flamboyant tones, and chromatic intoxications that even dare to be violent. Rejecting traditional figurative styles, Christian Pelletier's works breathe new life into our lives, subtly combining a certain realism with a graphic approach that sometimes borders on abstraction. Often, his compositions take us far from the subject to draw us into an intimate reverie.
And precisely, what differentiates the ephemeral painter from the artist who stands in time is this ability to convey emotions that awaken our senses.

C.D.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1949
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists