About Olivier...
Olivier Longuet was born in France in 1975, spending half of his
childhood between St-Malo in Brittany and the town of St-Simon (between Cognac and Angouleme) in the Charentes area. He moved to Ireland in 1998 and has now set up his workshop in Bell Harbour Co.Clare. Self taught, he was initiated to drawing and painting at a young age from both his Mother and Grand Father. Since then, Olivier has worked on a wide variety of mediums such as watercolors, markers, pastels, oils and acrylics, knives and now does most of his work using oil on canvas.
"Loud and bold", Olivier's current work grew out of the desire to use simple shapes to represent the complex stances of human body in action, directly reflecting his love for the French tradition of comics strips and cartoons (France, and even more so, Angouleme is most famous for it's International Comics Festival). Complemented by vivid colors and sharp contrasts, the paintings appear to be very much in movement.
Mostly taking from areas he is very familiar with -surfing and Traditional Music(s), Olivier is also exploring more areas such as the work of great renaissance artists or the Burren and Galway landscapes. |
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