Thierry Mell

I started my professional activity in Paris in communication agencies (Artsco, Candice, Pierre Teissier Studio) then at Publicis in Brest. Then, for 13 years I worked as a freelancer, before being hired as a printing sales technician in the Quimper region. This new experience makes me discover the galleries of Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Quimper, Pont-l’Abbé, Douarnenez, Huelgoat, and especially the painters, professionals or amateurs. Encounters, languages and visions, approaches evoked and commented on then allow me to rediscover all my creative process, from which I had moved away during my career. My painting is inspired by Built Art or Concrete Art. The notion of abstract art is replaced by that of the existence of the line and the flat surface: the line expresses character, the flat surface coherence. This approach is not intended to represent information, a person or a place such as figurative art. It is an effect of composition, balance, graphic relationships that reflect sensations of contrast. It is a simple geometric expression, which always uses organizations of surfaces, volumes and structures. It is a painting generally executed from backgrounds in a limited range of colours applied in direct tones. Thus, with elementary means such as trapezes, squares, triangles, circles and lines, the constructed painting gives a wide range to the expression of Pictorial Art. We also find the modeling-past which gives this aspect of matter and light that contrasts with the perfect flat areas of shine and matt.