Discover the contemporary work of Guillaume Clément Jacques
I was born in Bordeaux in 1987.
My work is distinguished by the exploration of colors, textures and movement.
After studying fashion design, and before devoting myself fully to my art and my activity as a painter, I advised and supported clients in the world of high-end furniture for 14 years, in Bordeaux, Los Angeles and Paris.
Abstraction and very often bright and "straight out of the tube" color are at the center of my work. I explore strong contrasts, the use of dynamic colors, and sometimes the intensities of blacks and whites. Colors transmit emotions and energies to me. I draw my influences from the calm of nature, the urban swarming and human emotions.
I work my surfaces in flat tints, or on the contrary in a more textured or nuanced way, thus creating a unique visual language, where each color, each texture tells a story. It is a bias to focus only on abstraction. I also invite each of us to reflection and personal interpretation.
I try to invite my viewer to a kind of introspection and personal meditation. He can therefore lose himself on surfaces colored in details, or feel and consider the discovery of other aspects of themselves.
Each work pushes the limits and aims to communicate the incommunicable: the expression of a feeling, an emotion...