To understand me, you would need to know who I am…”
Michel Berger, author, composer, and performer
A professional oil and watercolor painter since 1998, my work reflects my skill as a colorist, where composition, through my geometric white or black outlines, contributes to the overall effect of the piece itself.
Listed on the international art market, my works are exhibited in numerous galleries throughout France, as well as in Asia, the United States, Canada, Europe, etc.
My painting consists of a suggestion through shapes and colors that sometimes plunges into an abstraction of backgrounds with which my painting has always enjoyed flirting...
It is an absolutely wonderful pleasure to suggest, to leave just enough form and movement for the subject to be understood instinctively... with an attraction to lines, the stretching of color, contrasts, and impromptu flashes of light, which bring to the canvas that subtle language that the eye understands instinctively...
It is this game that attracts me, that of semi-figuration. Barely revealing through suggestion, and leaving the rest to the mysterious discovery of one's own heart...
This artistic category, both figurative and abstract, is also called contemporary figuration.
What is an ARTIST? According to my definition, being an artist is a state of being. It is not a profession, initially. It is a state that is unique to us, personal, given to us at birth, immersing us in a creative process that transcends us. Inexplicable or subtly explainable, this process gives the artist this particular state that gives them access to Creation, both literally and figuratively.
Being an artist is innate. To make it a profession as a painter, sculptor, author, etc., is to connect this innate quality with the natural inclinations inherent in each of us, intuitively and unconsciously oriented towards a particular type of artistic practice, e.g. working with materials, drawing, working with the voice, working with instruments, and so on...).
Often reinforced by acquired knowledge and learning (as was the case for me) such as training, courses, internships, or self-taught but always necessarily improved by tireless hours of practice in the field...
Only then, this innate talent, put to use in the service of what I had learned, was able, in my case, to lead to a career.
Thus, I connected and “took” the profession from what I had an inclination for within myself and concretely learned to use.
In my references and personal experiences, I have found that innate talent without the reinforcement of acquired knowledge leads to nothing concrete. Thus, these processes will lead the artist to find their inclination towards pictorial art, musical art, the art of writing, etc., or even several at once, in order to express this innate creativity in multiple forms.
Of course, this is ONLY my personal view based on my own experience.
In an unconscious form, creativity is like a living energy that transcends my mind and nourishes my conscious spirit in the form of ideas, intuitions, feelings, images, and many other forms.
To understand this, imagine a corridor opening onto various doors. Depending on their state of consciousness and personal elevation, artists will have access to one or more of these doors.
Each door acts as a channel of energy, allowing them to receive all kinds of creative forms—I would even say all forms: CREATION.
My strength as an artist (sometimes pain, turmoil, suffering) is to be able to access this corridor, to establish this connection in order to be able to receive, in a regular, natural, and spontaneous way, this Creative energy that underlies Art and Life.
Moreover, like my own creative work, my new “Creation/Connection” workshops aim to teach you how to connect to this energy, this source, and try to bring it out in you, to encounter your deep creative nature.
The artist's unmistakeable signature is his contemporary compositions of black and white, with just the right amount of shape and movement, punctuated by lines, stretches of colour, contrasts and impromptu bursts of light, bringing to the canvas the subtle language that the eye instinctively understands...
In 2023 I had the opportunity to celebrate 25 years in the business… In this very special year, I wanted to celebrate this event as it should be, with a firework display of exhibitions, events and surprises… and the opportunity to say THANK YOU.
Thank you to all of you who have placed your trust in me and who have accompanied, followed and supported me throughout these 25 years.
Here’s a look back at an exceptional year…
From early childhood, the creativity and inspiration I carried within me were already emerging in various forms.
One day it was drawing, chalk, painting, another day writing poems and various texts, and yet other days creating clothes for my dolls... I can't remember ever being bored at any point in my life.
I always let whatever came to me emerge, and over time, this took on a larger role, first in the form of sculpture and painting.
Without neglecting writing, but without putting it in the spotlight either, life first led me to become a painter.
Twenty-five years of my career have passed... while in the silence of my notebooks, texts, songs, and stories to tell were always being born... in short, the author in me was always there...
And then... in 2020, without having particularly sought it out, a group of enthusiasts who had just created a local radio station offered to broadcast my texts... Very quickly, columns emerged on a variety of subjects, as part of the “La toile des multiples” section that RadioBastides did me the honor of broadcasting.
At the same time, I began writing my musical. Slowly, I let the songs and ideas come naturally... and then, little by little, my musical, which I named “Universe,” began to emerge...
With the invaluable help of a friend who is an artist, musician, and music teacher, my lyrics slowly became real songs...
For the first time, on September 7, 2024, on the program “De Vive voix,” two of my songs from “Universe,” my musical, were broadcast on the airwaves for the first time. What joy, what amazement too...what gratitude for what life has given me...
Thank you to Bertrand, my friend, my brother, my soul mate, musician and music teacher, for his help, his support, his musical ideas, and his unfailing presence. Thank you to RadioBastides, Patrick Figeac, and the entire team, Robert and Georges, for allowing this part of me, less known to the public, to be brought to light on the airwaves...
At the same time, I began writing my musical. Slowly, I let the songs and ideas come naturally... and then, little by little, my musical, which I named “Universe,” began to emerge...
With the invaluable help of a friend who is an artist, musician, and music teacher, my lyrics slowly became real songs...
For the first time, on September 7, 2024, on the program “De Vive voix,” two of my songs from “Universe,” my musical, were broadcast on the airwaves for the first time. What joy, what amazement too...what gratitude for what life has given me...
Thank you to Bertrand, my friend, my brother, my soul mate, musician and music teacher, for his help, his support, his musical ideas, and his unfailing presence. Thank you to RadioBastides, Patrick Figeac, and the entire team, Robert and Georges, for allowing this part of me, less known to the public, to be brought to light on the airwaves...
A story of the soul, or rather a story of love, set against a backdrop of Universal Love. In a play of flames, like a fire of the soul...two twin souls meet...it is the cradle of a great adventure that begins, that of Humanity...
Get a sneak preview of one of the songs from “Universe”: “Honeymoon”...
Chronicles "La Toile des Multiples" by the painter Corinne Vilcaz, who offers her varied posts. Texts, stories of all kinds, poems and other fantasies can be found every week on Radio Bastides.
To return to the image of this corridor of energy that I mentioned earlier, allowing me to open these doors of creation in various forms, it also led me, from my earliest childhood, to receive, beyond the purely creative aspect, a special “gift” for healing, which manifested itself gradually and expansively over time...
As a child, I perceived a whole host of things that seemed completely innocuous and “normal” to me.
These spontaneous manifestations, in various forms of feelings, seemed to me to be the lot of everyone...
As I grew up, I began to understand that these particular states that I received and perceived were not something mundane, and even less common... and I simply put it all aside, as one forgets something that disturbs us...
This energy did not give up, but let me go my own way without imposing itself other than through art and writing... It was only as an adult that the manifestations began to reach me again, in extra-lucid forms...
Among the most incredible things I could receive, I realized as an adult that I had a kind of “gift” for healing certain “boo-boos” on my children, and for providing broader “healing” care. I don't like the term “healer” because, in my opinion, no one heals anyone else; only the patient can truly heal themselves...but in our society, it is under this term “healer” that we associate this idea of an innate gift that cannot really be explained and implies nothing more than this special channel for receiving healing energies. ..
However, although these abilities may seem surprising to some, they didn't seem that strange to me, because my own paternal grandfather was what was once called a “bone setter”...
For my part, naturally, it is more in the form of energy that I can heal beings, souls in distress as they say, or even the ills of everyday life...
Long reserved for the exclusive use of my close circle of family and friends, one day I felt the need to understand and analyze these things I was receiving, and above all to ensure that what I was transmitting was well managed and only good for others. I then set out to validate these natural “gifts” through internships and training in quantum and holistic therapy...
In 2023, when I celebrated my 25th anniversary as a painter, I felt a strange surge of Life and the Universe whispering to me that it was time to openly embrace all these parts of myself that had been given to me, this magnificent gift at birth, and that it was time for me to share it with as many people as possible, as I had already done with my talents as a painter and author...
So here I open my heart to you and fearlessly present all these facets of my personality and abilities, even if it means coming across as “weird” to some people...
“It is not a sign of sanity to be well adjusted to a sick society”...Krishnamurti
