Discover the contemporary work of Renaud Barreyat

Living at home Montauban since 2006 - 4 children

Professional sales career in the leisure and aviation industry since 1993.

Some paintings created between 2000 and 2021 at private title.

Self-taught painter since 2021.

My only training in line and agrave; the representation is technical, through industrial design. Which brings a form of capacity to balance and general visualization. I waited, hoped, for at least 15 years for the trigger that would finally allow me to paint. It certainly took an experience, a lowering of the fear of the judgment of others and the visit of numerous painting exhibitions for the desire to finally be stronger than the fear of doing wrong.

Recently, street art exhibitions and amateur exhibition visits were the blocking point. A somewhat African life path, an attraction towards the primitive arts, a crush on Aboriginal art had forged things for a long time, but held back.

In fact, for 3 years, my figurative work has been in some way a mixture of all these influences.

Give pleasure in contemplation. My figurative painting is always colorful, graphic, decorated with arabesques often made up of a continuous, hypnotic line; and I hope, joyful.

I am in a joyfully simple and naive aesthetic research, which I hope will have a positive and universal impact. I am looking to create an instinctive attraction effect. And if the viewer can't explain why, that's perfect. As I like to feel it myself by discovering the work of another artist.

Because I consider that I must give joy to the spectator. While letting inspiration speak, I attach great importance to guide it, master it, so that you can imagine having one of my paintings at home without it ever having a harmful influence on the mood of the owner .

In parallel with a colorful bestiary, I periodically explore the field of abstraction, in a more instinctive, liberating, organic and automatic approach, although sufficiently thought out to achieve the intended result, on each canvas.

In this way, my painting is also a reflection of the paradoxes that animate us all.