Xavier Jambon (1970) - sans titre

French artist born in 1970, passionate about painting since the age of 12, he teaches and creates today powerful and captivating scenes.

Born in 1970, in Bègles, right in the heart of the Gironde in France, Xavier Jambon truly became aware of his attraction to painting at the age of 12, flipping through at his parents’ home a book by Watteau. He pursued brilliant studies at the University of Bordeaux in Plastic Arts, which he describes as a magical place, and thanks to this academic instruction he nourishes himself on painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

After four years of study he decides to devote his life to the service of art schools by teaching a form of art that is unfortunately forgotten, that of our great masters (Michelangelo, Balthus, Hopper...). Since then Xavier Jambon has continued to explore subjects and techniques, offering scenes of life that he scrutinizes closely. Whatever the subject, emotions and reactions are present; Xavier draws us out of our fortifications and invites us to observe and to feel. Scenes of fights, of evenings, of assaults or of the beach… the gaze remains incisive, disturbing, entrancing.

Acrylic on framed paper, original work