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"For me, painting is a desire to show what we too often forget to see. You just have to look, beauty is everywhere if you want to see it. The subjects are endless. Everything is a pretext for it. painting. But, the blank canvas of the first moment must allow suggestion, emotion. "He is one of those who think that a too precise touch kills spontaneity, lightness. He strives to keep in his work freedom in the touch, to work with color. "Above all, we must try to create E-motion, suggest by color and not show, pose a sensitive gaze. Painting is a job full of requirements. I try not to dwell on detail. " Pierre Bonnard, one of the painters he venerates, said very rightly: "It is not a question of painting life, but of bringing painting to life." /

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Born in 1952, he first went to graphic arts studies and in 1976 began a career in Parisian advertising agencies as Artistic Director until 2004. He also succeeded in the field of Illustration, especially for ELLE magazine and advertising.

These experiences of artistic director, photographer, painter, illustrator combined with his practice of Pastel and acrylic painting. Later, Oil Painting imposed itself in his work by its great flexibility of use and its infinite rendering. /

In 1988 he made his first exhibition and presented his works in numerous salons in Paris (Salon d'Automne in 1988, Salon des Indépendants in 1996, Galerie Amyot, Galerie Maeght in 1994 during a group exhibition with 50 artists ... ), in the Paris region (at the Chesnay Prix du Pastel, at Versailles, Moret, Garches, Croissy ...)

He also exhibited in a variety of places such as the Presse-Club avenue de Iena in Paris, in large Parisian hotels, at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain in Paris-Bastille, etc. /

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Today, he devotes himself entirely to oil painting in both figurative and abstract form. /

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His work is also present on INSTAGRAM as well as on SAATCHI-ART:

https://www.saatchiart.com/touvet

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