André Baldet is a painter-illustrator-graphist-abyssist and a large traveler. In parallel with his images orders for communication or publishing, he leads a global and original artistic project, "Caravan", which brings together the works that the world and his extraordinary diversity inspire him. Unlike the painters-travelers who work on the pattern, he does not work directly on the spot, contenting himself with field surveys: taking of notes and views, fast sketches and picking of signs that the reading of writers who borrowed the same paths. The creation work is done on the return, in the neutrality of the workshop. He redid the journey, reinvents it and re-interpreted it in complete freedom by relying on his know-how of the image professions.
Considering that each trip is unique and has its own language of shapes and colors, it applies to a permanent stylistic renewal, leaving the terrain, the places visited, influence and guide its pictorial writing. It is the plurality of expressions that makes the singularity of this project. The variety of original proposals is therefore very large, however the consistency effect dominates with a light palette and an impression of lightness, tranquility and gaiety that bathe most of the work. The idea of pleasure nourishes the creation process.
