Johan Bonnefoy

Johan Bonnefoy is a French contemporary artist born in 1986. He lives and works in Haute-Loire. A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Clermont-Ferrand, his art is centered on the landscape, which he explores through painting. More than a simple subject, the landscape becomes for him a raw material that he shapes and deconstructs in his work. Through a complex process of to-ing and fro-ing between the field and the studio, he succeeds in transcribing a deeply personal vision of the outdoors onto canvas. Using photographs taken outdoors as a vast sketchbook, he seeks to render the motif of passage through nature, taking the form of a boundary between two universes or two states. Johan Bonnefoy has exhibited in France (Paris, Abbaye de Pébrac) and the UK (London).