Michel Saint-Luc | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Unable to imagine himself working in any other sector than the creative one, Michel has always dedicated his life to art. Interested in all disciplines, he began his career as a decorator, while practicing in parallel, writing and poetry; he collaborated with various magazines and published five collections of poems. In 1998, he decided to return to his native region to open his personal gallery in Andernos-les-Bains, located in the heart of the Arcachon Basin. Poetry and the ocean are the two passions of the artist and are at the basis of his entire pictorial approach. In 2010 he begins the production of his semi-abstract seascapes which represent, for him, "an escape, an incitement to dream, to freedom, to travel or to meditation." Painted with softness, his paintings breathe the sea air and the peaceful atmosphere of the open sea. Always deeply attached to writing, Michel sometimes accompanies them with a small text in the form of a "poem-card".continually seeking a great fluidity in the composition of his backgrounds, the artist resorts to oil paint that he works with brushes and brushes. His signature lies in the treatment of the subjects which, on the contrary, are voluntarily executed with a knife, in the very thickness of the material. Attached to the feeling of tranquility that emanates from his paintings, Michel endows his subjects with more or less sustained cheerful colors, which he wants to be harmonious in relation to the gradient chosen for the background. This work of the relief, underlined by the plays of light and transparency, translates all the plastic character of his work.