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90 minutes
The class is taught in:French, English

About Me

His painted works employ a variety of techniques, including watercolor, ink, drawing, and oil and acrylic paint. Some large works also use gold leaf. We can apply Cézanne's phrase to this artist: "It is not so much nature that interests me as the forces of nature." By contemplating and studying the animals, the flora and the landscape, Eric shares a look that is both poetic and realistic on the wild world - a look that challenges man and his often irresponsible behavior towards the environment, because it has become insensitive. Some magnificent portraits of inhabitants of the regions visited or details of the historical heritage extend and complete the evocation of the world of the mountains or the desert. Certain oriental inspirations as well as the influence of lyrical abstraction give to his representations of wild life, with its forms and rhythms, a singular intensity and depth. The line, like the colors, magnifies the fruit of patient observation, both by bringing it back to the essential and by projecting it elsewhere.

His works have been the subject of several exhibitions, notably at the Natural History Museums of Geneva and Paris. They are present in public and private collections.

On the occasion of an exhibition entitled "When the night comes ..." (Geneva, La Pinacothèque, April-May 2010), Éric defines his approach as follows: I went into nature to paint the arrival of night . Sometimes in well-known places, like opposite the Salève, or in more "poor" places, like a simple dirt road or a bush near the river. The protocol is always the same. I settle in with the last rays of the sun and I paint a series of watercolors or oils until nightfall. How to "see" a world that is disappearing? What then do we call the real? And how does our imagination take over to build an "other reality"?

Education

A naturalist painter, author of numerous books devoted to the great natural regions of the planet, also an engraver and sculptor. Born in 1958 in France, living in Geneva, Eric is a gold medalist for French animal artists, laureate of the Fondation de la Vocation, member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators of the United States.

Experience / Qualifications

Bibliography
Alps. Wild calligraphies - Slatkine editions, 2018
Hearts of Nature in Haute-Savoie, co-edition ASTERS-L'AGENCE NATURE, 2016
Journey of a painter around Mont-Blanc, Slatkine editions, 2011
Sovereign nature - The Swiss National Park, with Pierre Rouyer, éditions du Midi, 2008, 176 p.
Colors of Venezuela. From the Caribbean to the Orinoco, bilingual French-Spanish, Somogy editions, 2007, 173 p.
Notebook of an amateur naturalist in Lubéron, with Serge Bec, 2007, 125 p.
Regional Natural Park of Monts d'Ardèche, with an audio CD of soundscapes, 2007
Namibia: From Okavango to Victoria Falls. Travel diary in Caprivi, Slatkine editions, 2006, 178 p.
Archipel des Cyclades, with François Arvanitis, Jacques Anglès and Anne-Sophie Bourhis-Pozzoli, Nathan editions, 2005
Colors of Syria, Somogy editions, 2004, 150 p.
Regional Natural Park of the Bauges massif, Gallimard Loisirs editions, 2001
Léman mon île, Slatkine editions, 2000
Carnets Naturalistes en Provence, Nathan editions, 2000
La Cote d'Opale, Gallimard editions, 1998
Carnets Naturalistes around Mont Blanc, with Daniel Aiagno and Jean-François Desmet, Nathan editions 1996
Guide for a young naturalist in the mountains, Delachaux and Niestlé editions, 1993
The large book of extinct species, with Jean-Christophe Balouet, preface by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Ouest-France editions, 1989, 197 pages

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