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.
Olivier has exibited in various galleries around Ireland France and UK, and he counts customers such as
actor Brendan Gleeson, poet Sean Tyrrell, painter Jim McKee, and musician Gavin Whelan.
Art to make you smile
Art is fun to do and should be fun to watch! 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 its
International Comics Festival.
A keen musician and surfer, Olivier is constantly taking inspiration from these areas, directly painting what he enjoys most.
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