Côte à côte (2012) Sculpture by François Thomas

I was born one day of July 1955. By looking at behind, I realized that I always want to create. After studies out of FAC, I had last the C.A.P. of plasterer to rub me with the matter. At the beginning of the Eighties, I put myself at the photograph (taken of sight, development and pulling). In the middle of the Eighties, following a writting workshop, Ii caught the virus of the words and I writes several novels ("pink paper ", inter alia, in the course of publication on ) till 2 years ago. In 1998, I started in parallel to carve wood. But, in 2002, my words were put at evil and I very rocked towards the sculpture. At the beginning, as wood that I worked was wood of my garden, I was very respectful and sought the dialogue with wood: it was it which guided me! Since, I had taken again urgence which existed in my writing and l transposed it on wood! Now, this wood, always so noble, must serve my vision! Apart from the wood of the garden, I use means of the edge: drink recovery of worn pieces of furniture, plastic, glass, plaster, stone of the garden, painting of do-it-yourself, felts... Obviously, from the techniques and materials that I use, I assert myself more and more as plastics technician rather than as sculptor! I am an autodidact and I assert it! Recently, - June 2003 -, I seek to share my vision of the world with the Other through my creations. And as it is necessary well to speak owing to the fact that we are a couple (my wife "painted"), and this since very, very a long time, I can say that we work each one on our side, in a different step, but it exists a healthy emulation between us two: with each time one of us two finished a creation, the other is its first critic. And I suppose there is there points of convergence between our two worlds!
François THOMAS 23/01/2004

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1955
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists