Collection: Thierry Citron

I am a painter of motifs inspired by landscape. Landscape observed or landscape imagined. It begins with the search for a subject, perhaps the most mysterious part of creating a painting. It's a kind of inner calling. Why does one place or theme inspire you while another refuses to speak to you? I believe that multiple layers of culture, memories, and sensations must come into play and lead to a conclusion: this is where you must work, or this is the theme you must paint today.   

To paint, I try to look without seeing, to feel without looking, and to put my skills into action in an almost instinctive way. The fewer strategies I develop, the less I prepare "the infallible recipe," the more confident I am of embarking on the right adventure that will lead me to the end of what I feel—or at least what I believe I feel.

Thierry Citron's CV