January 2026
I never quite know what to say about life in the studio. I go there on days when I don't have classes, and I simply continue working on the drawing I'm doing.
In December, I tidied up the studio and packed the drawings into boxes while repairs were carried out after water damage. When I returned from Thailand, I took advantage of the repairs to smooth out the walls, repaint, and reorganize the studio. And it was when I returned from Marrakech that I finally resumed drawing.
Je ne sais jamais très bien quoi raconter de la vie d’atelier. J’y vais les jours où je ne donne pas cours, et je poursuis simplement le dessin en cours.
En décembre, j’ai rangé l’atelier, mis les dessins en cartons, le temps des travaux après un dégât des eaux. De retour de Thaïlande, j’ai profité de ces réparations pour re-lisser les murs, repeindre et réorganiser l’atelier. Et c’est au retour de Marrakech que j’ai enfin repris le dessin.
December
It was a time to disconnect and reconnect with my close friend David Meignan, who has photographed my work for many years. David had been traveling by bike from France to Japan, and I had promised to meet him somewhere along the way. We finally met in Thailand, where we spent two splendid weeks together.
November
Back in the studio, I try to build on the pieces I did in Japan. It's not always easy to pick up where I left off, continue and/or go elsewhere... and yet, interesting things emerge.
October
working intensively on this new website - made by my talented graphic design colleague and friend Panni Demeter - I've been photographing works in progress and older ones
September
back in Paris
August
last week in Takasaki, Japan
ready for the show
August
5th week
in Takasaki, Japan
getting ready for the studio opening
August
4th week
in Takasaki, Japan
work in progress...
July
2nd week of residency at the Palais des paris, in Takasaki, Japan
working on...
July
1st week of residency at the Palais des paris, in Takasaki, Japan
working on...
June
on the studio walls...
May
People often ask me if I'm related to the painter and theorist André Lhote, which is not the case. One day, I found a copy of “Treatises on Landscape and Figure". Flipping through the volume, I was drawn to the clouds in the black-and-white reproduction of his 1937 painting, "The Gasworks".
On me demande parfois, si j'ai un lien de parenté avec le peintre et théoricien André Lhote, ce qui n'est pas le cas. Un jour, j'ai trouvé une copie de "Traités du paysage et de la figure". En feuilletant ce livre, j'ai été attiré par les nuages dae la reproduction en noir et blanc de son tableau de 1937 L'Usine à gaz.