Jean-Louis LAURAIN

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J L Laurain was born in Montreuil sur Bois in March 1943 on Friday the 13th.  Without a doubt, in order to avert this bad omen and confirm his quetionnable vocation, he immediately repainted the family's black cat green.  His action meant that his talent was noticed and it was suggested that he should have a dispensation to enter <The school of Bozarts>.  This family chose however, the local kindergarten where it would  be easier to respect his creative freedom and be closer to home.  Unfortuntaely, we have no trace of his early sketches and doodles from this period of his life.  The artists says he must have destroyed them in 1974 when he left Paris following an unfortunate love affair with the the Venus of Milo.

From then on, his constant movements make the task of the biographer difficult.  We can see some of his works appearing in various places:  in Paris for Trends in Modern Art and in the Room for Expression of Young Painters in 1981, at Annecy and Chambéry in  1983, at the Biennale Interational in Quebec in 1988, in Germany in 1992 and 1998.  However, there is every indication that he lived from then on in the Basses- Alps where he continued his artistic activities in sculpture, continuing notably in the area of postal art and unscrupulously putting in ciruclation his <brais-faux> stamps.

In effect during the last few years, his works have been brought to our attention again in various places in this region:  at the Meeting of Sculptured Arts  in Château-Arnoux (where he even won the Grand Prix in 1991) and more recently in Digne-les-Bains, Manosque, Forcalquier...
The research continues.

E Lifaure
Art Historian

The Workshop

For a longtime, I have painted in the corner of a bedroom, I have slept in the corner of the workshop and, the two became one.

Now that I am fully devoted to painting in a calm peaceful place, admittedly not too big but where I feel at ease, sometimes far removed from the idea that one generally has of the <artist's workshop>.  A vast place full of light with glass walls, so fortunately converted into lofts by the middle class city dwellers, the lively artist having invested in one to persue his shameful activities, one of those industrial wastelands which make the suburbs so charming: or again (we are not in the markets of Lubéron which are forever being sypathetically improved by the magic of estate agencies) an ancient barn tastefully developed in a renovated farmhouse on the south coast.
 
More modestly, my workshop is a room in which can be found a table, an easel and all the necessary tools for the art of painting.

In the middle of all that, the canvasses hung or more or less arranged against the walls.  Not forgetting a few chairs for my cats.

Jean-Louis LAURAIN has participated in numerous exhibitions, including: