Jean-François Larrieu, french painter born in 1960.
President of the Salon d’Automne in Paris from 1995 to 2004, co-founder of Art Capital, currently President of the Foundation Taylor (since 2010).
He loves to play with color. It’s what gives his work such energy and movement. The abundance of details – not at all disturbing or confusing to the eye – brings a softened sense to the whole piece. Larrieu’s tableaux are solar. They vibrate joy and tenderness, too. They are the image of life, sensitive and authentic.
Larrieu uses this to deliver his message. He uses his favorite subjects like fauna (natural and urban), flora and the ocean to pay tribute to nature and all the forms of life she contains. Larrieu invokes all this and more thanks to a unique, pictorial prose. It thus underlines and sublimates the richness of nature and the pure emotion it provides. And at a time when the planet is suffering, he also has the will to challenge the role of Man in its safeguard.
His works are exhibited and collected in art galleries in different countries.