He is one of those artists that we never tire of rediscovering... Jean-Daniel Bouvard offers us an immersion in the heart of his seascapes here at the Cyril Guernieri Gallery, in the heart of Saint- Germain-des-Prés.

At first glance, his paintings captivate us, with the spontaneity of the artist's gesture, the perfectly balanced composition of these maritime scenes, sometimes agitated, sometimes peaceful, always inviting us to contemplation. A painting from life, in the style of a modern impressionist who places his easel wherever he pleases between the Phoenician city and the Breton coasts, between sea and ocean.

But what appeals to us here is undoubtedly the emotional density of these landscapes immersed in the heart of these obsessive waters, this gentle and yet burning sun, this sea of oil which awakens in turbulent waves. Here wild and free nature has no use for our presence, it gives itself over, intensely, without restraint. So we start to dream... What if a mysterious diving board could emerge from these sleeping waves to offer us this big jump that we dare not attempt? What if we too could find ourselves on these rocks golden by a gentle sun, caressed by the waves? Dream or memory?

Jean-Daniel Bouvard enjoys this confusion, plunging us into these disturbing and obsessive waters. A painting that is written like the verses of a poem, in an intoxicating, tumultuous, sometimes enveloping existential rhythm, inviting us to deeply feel our anchoring in this world. Jean-Daniel Bouvard is a painter who tames time where it is good to find it, who offers us his dreams as the sweetest of realities, inviting us to lose ourselves in these blue horizons while waiting for calm to return.{6 }

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