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  New fotoprints: walls and salt - Nouveaux fotoprints | 2026 (texte en français ci-dessous) Fotoprints are images created from two photos of the same place, superimposed and processed with filters to give them the appearance of a silkscreen print. It's a technique I invented quite a few years ago now. The idea is to give an abstract impression of the subject rather than its exact representation. Initially, I had selected many photos for these new fotoprints, but when I saw the result obtained with Mur 1 (Wall 1), I went looking for other images of these walls seen in a small village in Mexico and I made Mur 2 and Mur 3 (not presented here but visible on the blog of my main site). I like the geometric side and the colors, and it is already something I had explored a long time ago with linocuts although for the most part, they were in black and white (some are still for sale at my exhibitions in or around Boston). The 4th fotoprint is meant to give an idea of ​​the ...

  New photos (from around the world) - Nouvelles photos | 2026 Out of hundreds of new photos I took in 2024 and 2025, I had to make a choice, and here are two of them, one from Canada and the other from Mexico. On this page , 7 more from France, Costa Rica and the USA. I agree that 5 different countries is not exactly a world tour, but hey, it's a little tour nonetheless, and to see other older photos and continue to travel, you can go to the page 30 unique photos. Parmi les centaines de nouvelles photos que j'ai prises en 2024 et 2025, j'ai dû faire un choix, et en voilà deux, une du Canada et l'autre du Mexique. Sur cette page , 7 autres de France, Costa Rica et des USA.  Je reconnais que 5 pays différents, ce n'est pas exactement le tour du monde mais bon, c'est un petit tour quand même et pour voir d'autres photos plus anciennes et continuer à voyager, vous pouvez aller sur la page 30 uniques photos .

2020-21 : digital sketches – croquis digitaux (texte en français ci-dessous) The tablet I had last year (see below) stopped working after a few months and yes, it was a cheap and simple one so I should have guessed it but it nevertheless got me hooked on digital drawing. I bought a new one but it’s much more complex and expensive and it took me months to get something from it. Working digitally has nothing to do with using paper and pencil. There’s no grain, no resistance and less subtlety in the lines. Below are some new sketches I don’t find good enough yet but perhaps they are the maximum of what I can do! To be continued… La tablette que j’avais l’année dernière (voir ci-dessous) a cessé de fonctionner après quelques mois et oui, c’était une tablette pas chère et simple donc j’aurais dû m’en douter mais elle m’a néanmoins rendu accro au dessin numérique. J’en ai acheté une nouvelle mais elle est beaucoup plus complexe et chère et il m’a fallu des mois pour en tirer quelque chose. T...

  How long to make a print? This is a question that I get asked regularly and as I have just made 7 small prints ( see article on this subject ), here are the details of the process and an estimate of the time it takes each time: The 1st step is to decide what theme I'm going to explore and think about what photos I have or could take. Before, I also listened to what people told me about what they would like to find when they see my work and I noted the type of formats they favored. It's a little difficult to measure these scattered times but let's say 4 hours in total. Once the theme is chosen, I decide on the number of engravings I will make, their sizes and the material I will use, wood or linoleum. For the material, it depends on what I have in stock, but I like wood for the lines it leaves on the final result and which I integrate into the composition, so it is often the wood that I use now. This all takes another 2 hours. The first concrete and more m...

(text in French below) 3 woodcuts Started in January with 4 other ones, it took me a while to finish them but I've been wanting to add animals to my collection for a while so here they are, in order of appearance: Cat : initially it was just going to be a black and white silhouette of a cat and that's how I engraved it, the quintessence of a cat in the window, but ultimately the color adds something more mysterious . En famille : this is not the image I thought I would use when I thought about what I was going to engrave this year but the one I had in mind turned out to be too detailed so I looked in my photos from years past and it was this one that I had totally forgotten. I like cows, thoughtful, quiet. Le coq : last year I went to an Airbnb and its owner had a lot of chickens in front of the house, it made people stop and she had even planned to organize a drawing competition for the neighborhood children so I I said to myself, why not make a rooster which is al...

(texte en français ci-dessous) Why making second edition prints ? It now regularly happens that the edition of a print that I had made is sold out and I like it, but then the question arises of whether I do second edition or if I decide it's over. The other question that arises is whether it's fair or not to make more copies than originally announced since the limited edition is getting wider and the first buyers could think they were somehow deceived. Here are my answers: I look at how quickly these prints have sold and if it was relatively quick (several years in any case because I have many different ones), I make more. In this, I am inspired by the example of the Norwegian painter and engraver Munch who made many engravings in successive editions to generate income because his paintings sold little. It's true that I no longer make paintings, but I still need income! I then number these prints as second edition prints, and they are sometimes a little ...

Despite the existence of messaging on the internet, I still regularly sell cards so here are 11 new ones for 2023, from photos taken over the past two years in Canada, France, Mexico and the USA – Malgré l’existence des messageries sur internet, je vends encore régulièrement des cartes donc en voila 11 nouvelles pour 2023, venues de photos prises ces deux dernières années au Canada, en France, au Mexique et aux USA. I chose them because I saw the titles I could give them and I liked the stories I could imagine behind them! – Je les ai choisies parce que je voyais le titre que je pourrais leur donner et j’aimais l’histoire que je pouvais imaginer derrière! The 1st card (Againts all odds) speaks to me of adaptation, resilience, stubbornness; all it takes is a small patch of land that isn’t even often wet for life to explode – La 1ère carte (Contre toute attente) me parle d’adaptation, de résiliance, d’entêtement; il suffit d’un petit pan de terre même pas souvent humide pour que la vie e...

10/12/22 10/12/22 (texte en français ci-dessous) Drawing during Fall, it’s to force oneself to use color because, as is evident in the first sketch, black and white never gives any information on the season. It offers a generic representation of the landscape, here the essence of a mountain seen from the shores of a lake, but nothing more. It lacks the very particular smell of leaves decomposing on the ground, the more gripping one of certain marsh grasses which are beginning to dry, the palette of yellows, browns and reds which has been added to that of greens. Will it be possible to show everything with color, no, of course, it’s always better to be there to appreciate the moment and contemplating an image after the fact is only a last resort when there is no or no other solution. This is why the minimum when it comes to autumn is to indicate the colors to awaken the memories that will really give body to the image. Obviously, someone who has never seen a mountain lake in autumn will...

03/30/21 (Texte en français ci-dessous) Drawing apple trees in a plantation is to choose them among dozens of others and remember which ones have been selected in order to be able to compare the successive drawings over time. Unfortunately, it’s only when you want to draw them a second time that the question of finding them again arises and it is tricky when no previous identification has been made of their exact locations. It turns out that although they are all different, they all look alike and in this they are characteristic of life: the same mold is used multiple times with variations that only count for trained eyes. More generally, it’s already a lesson even though you haven’t even started the second drawing yet: like apple trees, our differences are certainly only superficial. We think they are important because it is what makes us unique but it is perhaps a show of a lot of pretension because in a crowd, aren’t we commutable? In the case of these apple t...

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Of all the whales in the Atlantic, the humpback whale is probably the most beautiful to see when she dives and shows her tail or even better, when she soars toward the sky and falls in a spectacular big splash. From a distance, when you see her powerful jet, you know that it will be the sign of an extraordinary spectacle. Does she know that you are watching her with hope and impatience, it sometimes seems so when she comes along the boats that have come to see her up close and then appears where you did not expect her, as if to play with your objectif lenses which are never exactly oriented to the right direction. These in any case were in the Bay of Fundy between the island of Grand Manan and Nova Scotia, and although they can sometimes be seen from the coast, most often they are offshore and leave these coasts to seals, porpoises and finback or minke whales which also blow and sometimes jump but on a much smaller scale. It would be a mistake to ignore t...