Dame de carreau (2021) Painting by Jacques Maupas

I had fun drawing my loved ones on binder sheets during my high school years, a hobby that I stopped as soon as I entered working life.

After my thirties, my mother being enrolled in an art school, makes me want to try painting. She gives me 2 canvases, brushes, tubes of paint and some advice.

Totally self-taught, I start by making waves to learn to master the material then I quickly tackle portraits and nudes. Quickly passionate, I created nearly 100 paintings in 6 years before moving away again following professional problems.

Even if the sole purpose of my creation is the pleasure of painting, I some exhibitions with associations and I sold a few paintings.

Retiring in 2016, I returned to this activity with the same desire and the same pleasure.

My favorite subjects There remain the portraits, particularly female, and the nudes. I actually like to see the details of a face, a look, an expression, the movement of a body emerge under my brushes.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1956
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists