As a child he outshone his art classmates, as a teenager in the Sixties during family visits he observed the Montmartre,painters for hours and now, as an adult, he paints for the pleasure of offering his work to his family and friends.

It was in 1995 during a chance professional trip to Honfleur that he decided to settle there.

At the Old Port, he rediscovered the pleasure of putting his emotions on canvas, and, to his great astonishment, started to sell his works.

Ever since, this figurative artist with impressionist tendencies never tires of revisiting his adoptive town and capturing the iridescent contrasts as the lights change on the Old Port just as in their time, did Cals, Monet or Boudin.

Undoubtedly the innocence of his paintings rings true because the pleasure remains the same: to rediscover using the same techniques the original pleasure which these great artists also used to feel.

Like them, he also draws his inspiration beyond Honfleur at: Etretat, the Giverny Gardens and in Provence on the Esterel coast or the Antibes region and, more recently, the West Indies.

Colourful memories flood back to inspire his paintbrush to better find and explore the mythical Honfleur which he enhances with harmonious and warm shades of colour.

Water is a common thread in this artist's passion for fishing and nature. Its reflections enable him to meander from the figurative to impressionism while also leaning towards more abstract inspirations.

He uses his knife to work the ponds, ports, coasts or beaches while always trying to seize their slightest movements.

But his greatest pleasure is to see the emotions when his viewers look at his art. Their judgement is of primary importance:

"I need the public's approval; it helps me to preserve a certain humility vis-a-vis my work, because nothing should ever be taken for granted"