Discover the contemporary work of Dominique Joyeux
Born in Poitiers, I lived in many overseas countries. When I arrived in Guadeloupe, the light hit me: it was a trigger. I trained in drawing and art. painting in workshops in the Antilles, the South Pacific and Corsica. My travels have influenced my professional career and inspired me. my painting: first a psychotherapist serving autistic children, I nourished my imagination with painting and poetry. Having become a literature professor, I continued my artistic quest and accompanies each of my works with an explanatory text.
After Corsica, four years in the south of France and I returned near Lyon. I devote myself exclusively to; painting since 2012 and started painting. à exhibit in 2014.
I create abstract paintings evoking ocean life and transmission in works where the human presence sometimes arises.
Colorful spaces surrounded by a setting evoke microbiology and continents in motion. If the search for colors characterizes my work, I also offer acrylic canvases with different colors. the abundant material as canvases where the glazes to The acrylic oil surrounds are supported by a very graphic approach. I also like to work in thickness, with a knife and I experiment with paintings where there is a lot of texture. I include natural fibers knitted on wood or canvas.
My signature is the circle which highlights the flat areas of color standing out against bright colored or dazzling white backgrounds. I also write: my paintings must be read as metaphors opening our horizon.
We must absorb the color, let it enter us, flow through our veins and awaken our emotions. Because it is light that we need, light and authenticity.
My approach is above all spontaneous: I start from a free pictorial movement. or an instinctive graphic design. from which I identify forms likely to enter into relationships. I let the eye guide the hand and then work again until the point is reached. find a balance. During these first traces, I let my hand go on the paper, drawing shapes without particular intention; then I make a choice, I rework the graphics, evaluate what shapes could communicate on the canvas. The shapes obtained can be seen as small worlds. I thus defined spaces which will come to life on the canvas and it is up to them to do so. at that moment that the meaning becomes clearer. Whatever my approach, it is the color that creates unity. of all of my work. I proceed to I've been researching my colors for a long time and I'm now getting such stunning results in my own skin. acrylic than acrylic oil. When the time comes to choose colors for a sketched canvas, I start with the one that inspires me and can take me towards an interesting harmony. Then I select the camos or opposites until they appear. what colors communicate.
My colors, tender shades and bright colors, prepared to be used in any fashion. starting from pigments, come to punctuate this momentum. I place them on these patterns made by hand. from a graphic search aimed at make the shapes communicate with each other. oil or acrylic: in the latter case, I proceed respecting an ancient tradition by superimposing glazes between which I interpose a varnish. Each colorful space is surrounded of a dark color with the knife which constitutes a « membrane» for cellular forms, oceans, wandering continents. This stained glass effect allows circulation between these small worlds which resonate with each other without colliding. This work is part of my desire for encounter and harmony. And sometimes, almost like that. Unbeknownst to me, a form highlights the concerns linked to our human condition. I assume that these allusions to reality enter into an abstract work. The rendering of colors, the roundness of the shapes seduce the eye and the heart: the reading of the meaning is softened when the subject is more serious. Most of the time I create my paintings first in hand. acrylic before resuming this work again. the oil which brings radiance and beautiful depth.
The background can be colored. and worked in the same technique. Or I choose to make the patterns stand out against a structured white background. with a knife. More recently I put paintings on a white background and others on a black background into perspective.
I offer paintings on canvas and wood in a wide variety of formats ranging from 20/20 to 145/115 including 70/100 and 80/100 formats. Some round formats, ovals, squares.
