Discover the contemporary work of TMC

Professor of visual arts until 2021, I studied at the Beaux-arts de Tourcoing and at the faculty of visual arts of Lille III from 1981 to 1986.

I also worked at the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-cambrésis and at the LaM in Villeneuve d'Ascq as an animator and tour guide.

I have produced large-format paintings, some of which have been exhibited in the context of a collective exhibition with the Union des Arts Plastiques, UAP, in the 80s, the Printemps Culturel Valenciennois.

At the time, I was very influenced by Basquiat Pollock, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Mitchell as well as by copy art.

Later, experimental video art attracted me more, I put this passion to good use by setting up video workshops within the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau and in schools, colleges where I taught visual arts.

The drawings I am currently making are regularly published on Facebook, Instagram and are exhibited virtually in Artboxy's partner galleries.

Artistic approach

I created this pot-bellied, asexual and ageless character with shaggy hair in 2022 in response to a challenge launched by an artist friend, Jozef Bonnot, who motivated me to make a drawing a day for a year. It is Germaine Richier's sculpture, "Bullfighting". who inspired me a lot to invent this character.

I respected the challenge or almost and made more than 300 drawings representing this strange character in different postures and contexts.

I am inspired by photographs taken from contemporary dance shows, cinema, paintings or sculptures by famous or unknown artists.

What interests me above all is the expression of the body, the posture, the representation of the hands and feet. I like it when my character is grotesque, burlesque and endearing.

I always add an object represented with more or less realism in order to create a contrast with the graphic style of the character which is much more gestural, sometimes close to writing.

I always start my drawing with the head, represented by very quick pencil strokes (lead pencil).

I made several series:

1-Series of musicians in which a large part of the musical instruments is represented.

2-Series of dance

I made some clay sculptures inspired by my character that I call ''Lampito'' from the name of this combative and feminist woman of antiquity, originally from Sparta.

I made also digital prints on white t-shirts for people interested in my character's style.