Pierre Carret

My painting is deeply inspired by the places where I have lived: Saint Etienne, the Caribbean, Bordeaux, and more recently the Arcachon Basin. It is an unconscious dive, a long descent into the depths of an extraordinary mine (in reference to my Stéphanian origins) where I tirelessly dig and draw, in search of an ideal landscape, a memory, where ancestors, wild beasts, and joyful musicians commune while awaiting the Apocalypse. Each painting is for me a bath of rejuvenation, an eternal return to the source of the sacred, of the Living.