Forbidden confession (2019) Painting by Julien.B

I'm 39 years old and I'm self-taught. I started taking drawing and painting lessons in 2016 at an association near my home, and the need to learn the basics seemed essential to me to get started. I quickly left, it didn't suit me and people made fun of what I could draw. My tortured portraits have no place in their place. So I decided to learn on my own ever since. I mainly use pastel, acrylic on any support (paper, canvas, cardboard etc. ...) I also like sculpture, working clay with my hands, using different materials to enhance it. I am mainly inspired by current events and my personal experiences. I try to express my thoughts other than through words and to transpose my vision of the world, my beliefs and my revolts into painting. I express myself in a simple and brutal way; like a slap addressed to anyone who looks at my painting and sculpture. I do very little prep work. I go by intuition with bold colors. I don't draw my inspiration from great painters: my tastes are quite eclectic. I admit to an attraction to the expressionist movement. And I appreciate the works of Hieronymus Bosch as much as those of Anselm Kiefer for example. For me, an artistic work must above all strike me from the first glance.

I had a few exhibitions, the first at the artistic meetings in Brétigny sur Orge two years in a row. In 2021 I was chosen for collective exhibition " Focus art'fair" at the Richelieu workshop in Paris. More recently in a gallery in the 11th arrondissement of Paris which had the theme " The defeat " .

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1981
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists