Atelier Eric Fleury
In albums, on canvas or as objects, Eric Fleury's creations are always worlds in relief, very serious childhood images that are above all funny, naïve, not as innocent as they look, making you laugh and think…".
Born in 1974, Eric Fleury is a painter from Finistère who now lives above his studio in Payzac, a small village in the southern Ardèche.
A keen draughtsman from an early age, he has taken part in a number of plastic arts workshops, but his work cannot be confined to any one movement or contemporary school, since it draws on so many different but coherent sources of inspiration and worlds.
Close to the world of live performance, he regularly designs posters and visuals for festivals such as Couvre Feu. As the illustrator partner of the Ogres de Barback, he has been adding colour to their albums for many years, and sometimes takes part in their stage creations, sculpting the group’s puppets or imagining the birds on their latest tour. His collaboration with this multi-talented group has led him down the path of illustration for the adventures of Pitt Ocha, a children’s record book character in whose birth he played a part, and whom he drew solo for volumes 2 and 3: Pitt Ocha au pays des milles collines and Pitt Ocha et la Tisane de Couleurs.
These drawings were then impregnated with his practice as a painter and sculptor, which he continues today alongside Jocelyn Vigouroux, travelling the roads with him in their “Petit Atelier”, a circus tent, a travelling exhibition that houses their works when they are not held in more traditional venues.
In albums, on canvas or as objects, Eric’s creations are always worlds in relief, very serious childhood images that are above all funny, naïve and not as innocent as they seem, making you laugh and think.
A keen draughtsman from an early age, he has taken part in a number of plastic arts workshops, but his work cannot be confined to any one movement or contemporary school, since it draws on so many different but coherent sources of inspiration and worlds.
Close to the world of live performance, he regularly designs posters and visuals for festivals such as Couvre Feu. As the illustrator partner of the Ogres de Barback, he has been adding colour to their albums for many years, and sometimes takes part in their stage creations, sculpting the group’s puppets or imagining the birds on their latest tour. His collaboration with this multi-talented group has led him down the path of illustration for the adventures of Pitt Ocha, a children’s record book character in whose birth he played a part, and whom he drew solo for volumes 2 and 3: Pitt Ocha au pays des milles collines and Pitt Ocha et la Tisane de Couleurs.
These drawings were then impregnated with his practice as a painter and sculptor, which he continues today alongside Jocelyn Vigouroux, travelling the roads with him in their “Petit Atelier”, a circus tent, a travelling exhibition that houses their works when they are not held in more traditional venues.
In albums, on canvas or as objects, Eric’s creations are always worlds in relief, very serious childhood images that are above all funny, naïve and not as innocent as they seem, making you laugh and think.
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