Patrick Vernet

He was born in Nîmes on july 08 1957 from a working class family. Because of his background, nothing predicted he would take any interest in art but his deep links with his Cévennes roots which bathed him with colours, scents, smoothness and happiness.

As a poet teenager, he took to photography while he practised different sports.

Visiting museums and galeries, looking at canvasses, always on the look-out of new emotions, he has always considered drawing and painting as sacred.

Until one day, a chance encounter made him embrace painting.

Representational work to reassure himself, oils and paintbrushes, then oils and palette knives in order to flirt with the canvas fine rustling poetry and be moved by the bounce that lets the colour come to light, and then, the work.

Abstract work where colours interfere with each others, slip and smooth out to live their own life and reach the soul of those who agree to turn into a voyeur while they are travelling down the ages.

Conceptual work, sculptures, assemblies, installations in order to create (cry out) with passion (suffering).


Traduction : Pascal ELISSEE

Je peins une toile, elle me plait, je suis content. Faire un tableau, écrire un texte, prendre une photo, c’est comme trouver des champignons, réussir un beau trou au golf.

3ème prix du Jury au Salon des Peintres des Capitelles (2003) pour « Fenêtre sur la vie ».

Salon d’hiver des Peintres de la Tour de Millet (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002) Nîmes (Gard)
Salon d’été des Peintres de la Tour de Millet, (1998, 1999) Nîmes et Anduze (Gard)
Salon d’été des Peintres Alzonnais (1998,1999) Alzon-sur-la-Vis (Gard)
Salon des Peintres Tisztelet’Art (1999,2000, 2002, 2003) Salinelles, Nîmes, Le Vigan (Gard)
Salon des Peintres des Capitelles (2003, 2004, 2005) Poulx, Uzès (Gard)
Les Picturales du Languedoc (février 2003) Saint-Gély-du-Fesc (Hérault)
1ère Biennale des Plasticiens (juin 2003) Nîmes

Exposition Patrick Vernet – Galerie Jules Salles (Nîmes) – Février 2002
Exposition « Patrick Vernet – Toiles abstraites et autres évidences » - La Remise en Scène (Nîmes) – Avril 2005

Exposition permanente – Galerie des SCM – 11, rue Espérandieu, Nîmes