Confiseries (2020) Painting by Pascal Roskam

Amateur painter for 30 years. I currently paint mainly Versailles landscapes but also still lifes.

I favor graphic realism but I always associate vibrant and intense colors with it. My creations are designed so that they induce a certain harmony or well-being in the viewer. The painting must be energizing, regenerating, and if an intense purple accompanies a golden yellow, it is rarely a coincidence.

But all this cannot be done in haste, so my pictorial technique is traditional, proven, patient and progressive. Each layer is superimposed on the previous one as the sessions progress. The insoluble problems of the day before will find their resolution in the session that follows. This break between 2 layers is as much constrained as it is essential, we go back and forth in front of our canvas, it is the moment that allows us to take a step back, we correct, we mentally rectify in order to prepare for the session that will come .

20 hours on average are necessary for me to complete a painting in order to achieve a certain realism without ever falling into cold mannerism. Because the few blurs, hatchings and other brush strokes bring so much energy and warmth to the painting that I keep them throughout the pictorial process.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1973
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists