Jean-Claude Barthel - Marais de Brière

Oil on canvas, professional keyed stretcher, 40 x 40, unframed.

Jean-Claude Barthel is a self-taught French abstract artist known for his vibrant, elemental paintings inspired by the forces of nature: water, air, earth, and fire. Trained as an industrial designer, he devoted himself fully to painting in the late 1970s after moving to Auvergne. Barthel’s works, often in oil or acrylic, feature rich textures, layered glazes and bold gestures that convey energy and emotion. His art seeks to evoke sensations—light, movement, warmth—through color and composition. Widely exhibited in France and Europe, notably in Paris, Vichy and Vienna, his paintings are held in private collections and represented by several galleries such as ETRU and SIMPARGA. Barthel’s work offers a sensory journey to the heart of nature.
www.artmajeur.com/jeanclaudebarthel

Light, impressions on canvas with brush textures fully express his personality as an artist. He loves water, air, earth, and fire. He builds a world in which he escapes, if only for the duration of a painting. At the end of the road lies the encounter between the creator and the viewer in a shared desire, the same quest.

Fairs, exhibitions, galleries.

2026: Spring Show - Noyant d’Allier
2026: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy
2026: Grand Show of Auvergne Artists - First Prize for Oil Painting - Clermont-Ferrand
2025: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy
2024: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy
2023: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy
2022: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy - 2nd Prize in Oil Painting
2022: LCL - Vichy
2022: Carnot Bookstore - Vichy
2022: First Contemporary Art Biennial - Vichy
2021: Gallery of Arts and Deco - Vichy
2021: Carnot Bookstore - Vichy
2021: Fond d’Art Moderne et Contemporain - Montluçon
2021: Bourbonnais Arts Show - Vichy
2014: Guest of Honor, 37th Autumn Salon, Ternay
2014: Open Studios – Lyon
2014: Affordable Art Show – Paris
2014: Art’et Miss Gallery – Paris
2014: Galerie l’Art du Quai – St Rambert en Bugey
2014: Creators’ Exhibition in Chambéry - Bourg-en-Bresse - Annecy / Talloires
2013: Galerie 33 – Lyon
2012: Art’et Miss Gallery – Paris
2012: Galerie de Lans – Chambéry

Self-taught, the artist regularly shows his latest works in fairs and galleries.

Collection Hewlett Packard Foundation, Suez Group (Electrabel)