Jean-Claude Picard
Jean-Claude Picard
Born in 1943 he began his education as a poster- and scene painter. He has since furthered his education as a freelance artist in many European countries. Since 1965, he has been freelancing in Cologne, Germany and has conducted several painting schools and international art seminars. He has been living and working in Palma de Mallorca, Spain since 2000.
Jean Claude Picard’s style is a synthesis of an atmospheric natural view and has a compositional freedom creating a sense of visual reality. In his youth, he discovered Provence, Roussillion and Catalonia as a painter’s paradise and he visits each region as often as possible. These austere landscapes with its tremendous light are subject to his mostly large scaled pictures. In rural pastoral scene, between the sunny hills and shady pinewoods, he has found the atmosphere that he needs for his individual style.
Picard only works on his forays in nature with a sketch block and watercolour paints and converts his impressions with his elaborate technique in his studio. He aspires to bring together his impressions in a specified ordering and therefore he uses prismatic patterns to enhance the shining spring and autumn colours and the gentle hills.
