MER ÉMERAUDE (2018) Painting by Xavier Auffret

After studying engineering, I turned to an artistic career by integrating the Decorative Arts of Paris. Passionate about drawing, I quickly moved towards a more solitary and personal search. My work is exhibited regularly in Paris and in the provinces.

The subjects chosen are essentially portraits and landscapes.

As Yves Bonnefoy indicates - in his writings on art - "to touch the universal through the singularity of each thing, the portrait is a genre with the highest attracting head". The mystery of the presence of human beings has always questioned me. Translating consciousness, which is synthesized in a face, into a look allows me to approach the mystery of the person. Although it is understood that the mystery still remains intact.

Through the landscapes that inhabit me, I also find an echo of my own inner research. Each element participates in the whole, and the whole is found in each element.

Colorist, I pay attention to the general harmony so that it evokes space, light and poetry.

The techniques used are acrylic, watercolor, pencil and spray paint, this on thick Kraft paper or canvas.

I have developed digital artworks in parallel. This flexible tool makes infinite experiments possible while working on what already exists. This flexibility is also found during printing, with remarkable fidelity both in terms of color rendering and contrast quality.

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