obert MERCIER-GALLAY http://robert-mercier-gallay.frrobert.mercier-gallay@gmail.com06 32 81 13 30I was born in september 21th, 1954 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Savoie, France).I am currently living in the french Alps, by the Lake of Geneva.Self-taught painter, I’ve been working with pencil and Indian ink, and I...
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obert MERCIER-GALLAY http://robert-mercier-gallay.frrobert.mercier-gallay@gmail.com06 32 81 13 30I was born in september 21th, 1954 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Savoie, France).I am currently living in the french Alps, by the Lake of Geneva.Self-taught painter, I’ve been working with pencil and Indian ink, and I am using oil painting since 1983. My technique is pointillist, I make the points one by one with long-haired brushes. I paint beyond the canvas, on the frame of my painting, this a way to push off the framework.I consider my self as an artist but also as a craftsman, making on my own my canvas and my frame.The purpose of my work is to create 441 paintings which is divided in 21 themes including 21 paintings per series. This is a way to cover all types of paintings : landscapes, portraits, abstraction…For each of these themes my approach consists of working around the form, the color, the matter or the effect of matter. It can starts from a place, a moment, an atmosphere, an impression, even a particular event that inspired me or that truly impacted me.Each theme matures slowly before imposing itself, it is the origin of the serie’s declinaison, the matrix of the painting. Then, I can make variations on each theme. I’m working on different themes simultaneously, for technical reasons but mostly because it is an incomparable source of openness and it allows my work to enrich itself continuously.The links that exist between the different themes are at the centre of my work. Themes speak one to an other and this confrontation feeds my inspiration and allows a permanently regeneration.My work is like a path that I try to trace. A shifting path, on which I always discover new directions, like a journey it restarts endlessly.