Bernard Dumaine
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Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953 in Angoulême, France) is a French artist most well known for his works in the surrealism and photorealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.
[edit] Life and Work
He attained his National Fine Arts diploma in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealism and surrealist oil paintings. His surrealist work was influenced by Yves Tanguy and Max Ernst.
He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works in collaboration with many artists internationally, and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.
He currently lives in Angoulême, France with his wife Catherine and children Lucie and Julien.
From Bernard Dumaine's feature in Future Art Magazine:
"Imagination and chance have a large place in the creation of my pictures, which are also works of experimentation and research. My favorite part of creating art is the 'stream-of-consciousness' and the discovery of each image as I am working-- I do not know exactly what would appear until I have finished it."
-Bernard Dumaine
[edit] Publications
- selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
- selected works in Metamorphosis (2006, Jon Beinart)
- Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)
