Jean-Francois Laurent

Jean-François Laurent – JFL was born in Lille in 1975. He has been painting with his own style since 1997 mainly with oil paint on canvas stretcher. He is inspired by lights, colors and transparencies. His work is influenced by the works of Lyonel Feininger, Robert Delaunay or Constantin Brancusi.

In his paintings, Jean-François Laurent seeks to transform perspectives and light to show the invisible, the interdependence of things, beings and objects. The lines intersect, intersect, deform to give a very structured composition and yet perfectly free and detached from the rules. The subject, going from the figurative to the total abstraction, remains perceptible by the observer who can project himself into these familiar forms, while having the possibility of seeing there what he wants to see there, and to feel what 'he wants. Light and shadows are everywhere in the canvas, so that from each point of view, the understanding of the work is different.

His touch is precise, he works with little material and with a reduced range of colors. He thus seeks to make the canvas vibrate, to make it alive and sensitive to its environment. JFL seeks to ensure that each work is to be rediscovered at every moment, that those who observe it let themselves be caught by the composition, by the colors, by the movement and that each time they let themselves be touched as if it were the first time.