I usually leave the studio around 6:30-7pm. During the spring, these hours follow the intensity and the presence of the sun in the studio. I try as much as possible to alternate these hours of creation with project development hours, either with other people or alone. In the afternoon I can have appointments, presentations to organize, project developments, and emails. There is no agenda, especially in winter when daylight is low, I can draw or paint in the morning, or work on a furniture project and an art series. The days follow the projects in progress. It is located in a historical and vegetalized alley of the district where Picasso and Modigliani had their habits.įor me there is no such thing as a routine. I get up at 6:30 am, practice a little gym and yoga, otherwise I go for a 1 hour run, have breakfast with my daughter, then I leave with her and I arrive for 8 am at the studio which is at the foot of Montparnasse. What does a typical day look like for you? See the selection of pieces worn by Frédéric Forest → That moment when the body and the mind let go and meet. And at some point, my hand will find a trajectory, a gesture that will certainly not be perfect but that will be the perfect line I wanted without knowing it in advance. If I miss or if I am not satisfied, I start again, just like in skateboarding, until I get what I was looking for.
It is both a constraint and a freedom that allows me to synthesize an idea, an image. I carry a lot of brushes and markers, but I use almost only one when I work on a canvas or a sheet of paper. I let my mind and my hand play and slide over it.
The surface has an important role in this process. I often have the feeling of drawing or painting like skiing or skating. They allow me to express new sensations and to suggest new stories, whatever the project's magnitude.ĭo the textures of your materials matter to you? What do you use? If so, how do you decide what colors and materials to apply in your paintings? For example, it can be the Villa Malaparthe, the Villa Necchi, the 1967 Jaguar E-type, the architects Frank Lloyd-Wright or Carlo Scarpa, Tilda Swinton, the choreographers Wayne McGregor or Angelin Preljocaj, Dorothée Gilbert, Christophe Lemaire or Dries Van Noten, Radiohead, Haruki Murakami, Moebius, Katsuhiro Otomo, the riders Arthur Longo, Nicolas Müller or Candide Thovex, the photographers Robert Mapplethorpe, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, and Maud Rémy-Lonvis.
They are mostly concentrated in photography, fashion, gastronomy, music, typography, dance, poetry, color and light. My influences are mostly at the periphery of Art. These moments can be anything, a perfume, a sound, a person you meet in the street, a fabric or its detail. Inspiration is the result of random moments running through my head and devouring everything I see. What are your inspirations? Do your artworks tell a story?
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