"LES AMEDEOS",Working on computer has enabled me to have a new tool at my disposal.
I was excited to discover this complement to oils, acrylic, watercolour and pastel; every creator needs instruments which are the personal and original extension of his desire to carry out his vocation.
I have dealt with this extensive project not as a graphic designer but as a painter . Each colour comes to life as a progression to what I have learnt so far but with a new spirit of perception.
These days I work with one or other of these materials, with the pleasure that accompanies painting with the material most suited to what I wish to create.
I continue my path which is enhanced by this process.
While we were looking at les "Amédéos", my freind Stéphane LEQUEURRE suggested that the title which would be the most suitable for these artistic prints would be 'prints of our time.'
This term struck a chord with its poetic, contemporary spirit and I have adopted it.
Art is alive only when it is in keeping with its time and it is this aspect which appeals to me.

I was led naturally to the work of Amédéo Modigliani.
Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor, born in 1884 and who died in 1920, his work is marked by the linear grace of the Sienna school. He lived in Montmartre, then Montparnasse where his use of elongation and stylisation developed. His immense success was linked to the "années folles" and the myth of Montparnasse.

When I look at his work, always the mystery between chiaroscuro and half-light, always a presence to relate darkness and light.
Blue, brown orange and green to relate intensity, the line as a complement, but also the resolve to make use of the infinitesimal difference to create intimacy.

This is how these 51 Amédéos came into being.