Presentation

Welcome to my website!

First of all, thank you for taking the time to visit my site. I hope it will interest you. A short presentation is a must ...

Where to start? How do I explain the relationship I have with painting? How do I explain how this necessity embraced me, the tingling in my hands when the idea of a picture forms in my head? And this feeling of wasting my time when I don't have the opportunity to express what my hands and mind want to create? It's impossible, so let's start with some facts instead.

I was born on March 1, 1966, in Millau (Aveyron, France). As far back as I can remember, I've painted, but the "click" - if I can say so - occurred after seeing a movie with Jean Paul Belmondo, when I went home and I simply had to create his portrait in oil paint with a knife. I was then 14 or 15 years old, and I realized that without ever having learned, I "knew" how to do a portrait! From then on I never stopped.

I am passionate about art and everything related to visual expressions such as movies which are often subjects of my paintings. I am inspired a lot by actors and singers, because through their arts, they speak their feelings and let us see a part of their soul. The movie may be fictional, but it causes the actors to show feelings that are real.

This double attraction, cinema and painting, was also the basis of my University curriculum that I've followed, since painting and other visual arts hold an equal place in my choice of studies:

1986-1987: DEUG AudioVisuel of the Faculty of Letters of Paul - Valéry Montpellier and courses at the School of Fine Arts.
1987-1990: School of Architecture of Montpellier, building designer diploma.
1989-1990: Licence of film and Audiovisual Studies

This dual passion continues, since I work in the cinema of Millau during the day, while I devote my nights to painting.

Each painting is more than a visual expression - it comes from my heart, an emotion I feel.

The themes vary: Portraits, landscapes ... because life itself is very rich and generates emotions that I try to recreate in my paintings.

What is exciting about painting is that we always learn, we're constantly changing as painters as life pushes us to do so.

My paintings are mainly made in oil or pastel, but sometimes I also use watercolors or ink ... The chosen technique is based on the subject of the painting and what I feel is "needed" to express the right feeling.

I also make paintings from order, which is very interesting because sometimes it pushes me towards new horizons that I would not be exploring without a specific order (e.g. a copy of Munch's painting "The Scream" or canvasing the view in a TV series like White Collar ...).

Sincerely,
Isabelle Roc, painter