Norbert Pagé

Norbert Pagé is a painter and engraver. Born in Touraine on March 28, 1938, he passed away on September 7, 2012, leaving behind a body of work rooted in the current of lyrical abstraction.

"To paint nature by becoming nature itself, to let oneself be traversed and invaded, to react like it, in order to discover the invisible parts of things without regard to the rules ordinarily received. To ensure that one has learned nothing, to be in a state of grace to struggle with matter, to forget everything and have no preconceived subject, in order to find the spirit that emerges by becoming the image to be looked at. My painting is the result of this incessant struggle, waged for decades in the silence of my studio: to give oneself to painting as one gives oneself to the one they love passionately, to ensure that the light comes from within, as I achieve in the glass of stained glass or through the human being. This result can only be obtained from a very strong inner meditation. To paint the void by filling it with spirit, in order to create emotion while reinventing one's own world. » Norbert Pagé, January 20, 2007

Public commissions: Triptych The School in the Woods (350 × 260 cm, oil on canvas), for the Maurice-Genevoix school group in Azay-sur-Cher. Twelve stained glass windows for the 12th-century church in Marcé-sur-Esves, 2002.

Collections: Private collections in France and abroad. Museum of Gemmail, Tours. Museum of the Cloister, Tulle.