Jean-Pierre Craninx is an established Belgian painter, emerging internationally.
He mainly practices abstract artistic painting but regularly includes a touch of figurative painting.
He was born on 06/01/1965 in Waremme, near Liège in Belgium.
He still lives there and has set up his workshop there.
In addition to a multitude of advanced training courses in various techniques, he holds a master's degree from the Haute Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts Saint Luc de Liège, in plastic, visual and spatial arts.
He was a professor of design and technology in Belgium and France but has devoted himself to artistic painting professionally for about 6 years.
Jean-Pierre Craninx, like Pierre Soulages, one of his mentors, is a fan of black but, unlike the latter who devoted himself exclusively to black after the 70s, he adds his own palette of colors.
His educational background allowed him to understand classic “academic” painting techniques but he appreciates being a painter of the 21st century with his own scientific advances which allow him to explore hitherto unknown territories. To do this, it uses the most advanced current techniques :
latest generation acrylic paints and mediums, use of pigments based on carbon nanotubes, epoxy lamination resins, laser engraving, etc.
Jean-Pierre Craninx feels close to various artistic movements but, above all, to certain painters from whom he draws his inspiration. Let us cite for example, in addition to Pierre Soulages already mentioned: Gerhard Richter, Georges Braque, Giancarlo Bargoni, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, etc.
His paintings attempt to synthesize these different influences while regularly keeping a touch of stylized figurativeness, hidden or not in the abstract composition. This is undoubtedly what makes it unique.
Jean-Pierre Craninx has always been fascinated by questions relating to the origins of the world, humanity, nature and time. This was not the case at the beginning of his career but today he highlights these metaphysical, even metempirical questions with a simplified figurative touch so as to signify the origin of life, of the ordering and of time which seems to emanate from chaos, from nothingness. The questioning of the unexplained arises from this combination in the composition of abstract and concrete which sometimes touches on surrealism. It is therefore a range of tools that are put to the service of fundamental questions to which humanity does not always have answers.
Let us also remember that he exhibited mainly in France and Belgium. He won, 3 years in a row (2020, 2021 and 2022), the certificate of artistic merit from the “La Pinacothèque” museum in Luxembourg. Since the end of 2022, it has benefited from an official listing, known as the Drouot listing, and is included in the latest Guid'Arts edition, a dictionary of listed artists from the 15th century to the present day, established by Christian Sorriano, Auctioneer and Expert at Drouot in France and at the Lausanne auction house.
