Jean-Claude Barthel - Port-Camargue






Over 10 years' experience in art trade and previously founded his own gallery.
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Oil/canvas, on 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 draftsman, he devoted himself fully to painting at the end of the 1970s after settling in 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 and impressions on canvas with textured brushwork fully express his artist’s personality. He loves water, air, earth, and fire. He constructs a world in which he escapes, if only for the moment of a painting. At the end of the road lies the meeting of creator and viewer in the same desire, the same quest.
Exhibitions, shows, galleries.
2026: Spring Show - Noyant d'Allier
2026: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2026: Grand Show of Auvergne Artists - First Prize in Oil Painting - Clermont-Ferrand
2025: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2024: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2023: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2022: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy - 2nd Prize in Oil Painting
2022: LCL - Vichy
2022: Librairie Carnot - Vichy
2022: First Biennial of Contemporary Art - Vichy
2021: Galerie Des Arts et Déco - Vichy
2021: Librairie Carnot - Vichy
2021: Fonds d’Art Moderne et Contemporain - Montluçon
2021: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2014: Guest of Honor, 37th Autumn Show TERNAY
2014: Open Studios – Lyon
2014: Affordable Art Show – Paris
2014: Galerie Art’et Miss – Paris
2014: Galerie l’Art du Quai – St Rambert en Bugey
2014: Exhibition of creators in Chambéry - Bourg-en-Bresse - Annecy / Talloires
2013: Galerie 33 – Lyon
2012: Galerie Art’et Miss – Paris
2012: Galerie de Lans – Chambéry
Self-taught, the artist regularly presents his recent works at fairs and in galleries.
Collection Fondation Hewlett Packard, Groupe Suez (Electrabel)
Oil/canvas, on 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 draftsman, he devoted himself fully to painting at the end of the 1970s after settling in 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 and impressions on canvas with textured brushwork fully express his artist’s personality. He loves water, air, earth, and fire. He constructs a world in which he escapes, if only for the moment of a painting. At the end of the road lies the meeting of creator and viewer in the same desire, the same quest.
Exhibitions, shows, galleries.
2026: Spring Show - Noyant d'Allier
2026: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2026: Grand Show of Auvergne Artists - First Prize in Oil Painting - Clermont-Ferrand
2025: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2024: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2023: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2022: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy - 2nd Prize in Oil Painting
2022: LCL - Vichy
2022: Librairie Carnot - Vichy
2022: First Biennial of Contemporary Art - Vichy
2021: Galerie Des Arts et Déco - Vichy
2021: Librairie Carnot - Vichy
2021: Fonds d’Art Moderne et Contemporain - Montluçon
2021: Arts Bourbonnais Show - Vichy
2014: Guest of Honor, 37th Autumn Show TERNAY
2014: Open Studios – Lyon
2014: Affordable Art Show – Paris
2014: Galerie Art’et Miss – Paris
2014: Galerie l’Art du Quai – St Rambert en Bugey
2014: Exhibition of creators in Chambéry - Bourg-en-Bresse - Annecy / Talloires
2013: Galerie 33 – Lyon
2012: Galerie Art’et Miss – Paris
2012: Galerie de Lans – Chambéry
Self-taught, the artist regularly presents his recent works at fairs and in galleries.
Collection Fondation Hewlett Packard, Groupe Suez (Electrabel)
