Jean-Noël Delettre
"The discovery of the mountain has guided my research to a more gestural"
Born in 1971. Dual Nationality Franco-Canadienne. He grew up in Lyon. From training and applied arts degree in graphic design, he performs the job in Paris as a painter restorer of old posters before that of graphic communication and webdesign in Lyon.
A fifteen years before the vessels in flame Turner, his first pictorial decisive shock, he understands the power of suggestion in painting and decided to become a painter. First academic influences with paintings and drawings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Géricault, Frans Hals, Delacroix, Ingres and others. The Impressionists such as Turner, Whistler, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Caillebotte, Gauguin and artists like the American Hopper, Vuillard, Bonnard, Klimt, Schiele, De Stael him open the door. The painting will be for him as an expression of his most intimate feelings and composition of lines, colour, values, light and material, will provide harmony, in the tension and balance, to give life and correctness about it.
A fifteen years before the vessels in flame Turner, his first pictorial decisive shock, he understands the power of suggestion in painting and decided to become a painter. First academic influences with paintings and drawings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Géricault, Frans Hals, Delacroix, Ingres and others. The Impressionists such as Turner, Whistler, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Caillebotte, Gauguin and artists like the American Hopper, Vuillard, Bonnard, Klimt, Schiele, De Stael him open the door. The painting will be for him as an expression of his most intimate feelings and composition of lines, colour, values, light and material, will provide harmony, in the tension and balance, to give life and correctness about it.