François-Olivier Nolorgues

François-Olivier Nolorgues was born in Paris in 1969. He lives and works in Deauville.

A self-taught painter, his work is part of an almost holistic approach in which he captures on canvas the intimate energy of the people he meets. Attitudes, movements, sensations, personalities... He agrees that he tries to correspond as closely as possible to the sincere reality of the moment and of the person being painted. In the manner of surrealist automatic drawing, the artist constructs his work as he makes his brushstrokes.

In his portraits, the painterly rendering of vital energy is brought to a climax, as if he wished to freeze eternal movement, in a raw, spontaneous élan, where reflection and hindsight do not exist.
His works can thus be described as a quest, a singular perception of otherness that takes the attentive viewer to the intimate mirror of himself, where no one else can ever go.
Driven by "pure psychic automatism", François-Olivier Nolorgues' works listen to the future and transcribe it into the present, as if truth were somewhere possible to materialize.

"Beyond words and ideas there's the energy we give off and the expressions that characterize us, they are our essence and our true identity, a territory where no one has ever been able to cheat".