ʻAll beings of this earth are artists.
I am an artist who paints for artists who look.
If this evidence didnʼt exist to paint would have
no sense at all.
My dyslexia made me a painter.
To say without speaking,
to write without words,
to be moved in silence with my own
grammar of forms.
How to talk about oneʼs own painting
when it speaks only with itʼs electricity ?
A world full of emotion....
where are the words in all that ?
One shouldnʼt paint things as they are,
rather as they tell you they are.
To paint is to listen.
Pigments of the entire world
to commune with the world.ʼ

ʻJʼai mille et une techniquesʼ Philippe Kerarvran asserts that he uses a whole range of
techniques. He uses natural pigments from India, Egypt and Europe, gesso, resins,
glazes, and varnishes. Philippe confided to me that his paintings are already made in his
head. He can see the complete work before even preparing the panel. Like a composer
everything is there for him at once...the moment of creation.

EDUCATION
1974-75 Beaux Arts Quimper
1975-77 Beaux Arts Paris
1978-79 Chelsea Art School
1979 Beaux Art Rennes
GENTY FINE ART
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Chapelle ‘Dom Michel le Noble’ Le Conquet Triptyque
2008 ‘La ronde des vins’ Galerie de Brest
2007 Galerie Anne de Bretagne La Baule
2006 Galerie Genty La nef Vouvant
2004 Galerie de l’Aubance Brissac
2004 Galerie Ballade de l’art contemporain, Auvers sur Oise
2003 Maison de la Fontaine Brest
2002 Fort National St Malo
2001 Galerie ‘Start’ London
2000 Galerie La Ramure Auvers sur Oise
1999 Galerie Artitude Brest
1998 Centre Culturel de Plouescat
1997 Galerie English Apart Brest
1996 Art Collge Plymouth
1995 Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle Brest ‘Jeu et Sapiance’
1994 Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle Brest ’99 peintures)
1993 Hotel de Ville Brest
1992 Galerie Maison de la Fontaine Brest
1991 Galerie Aussant Rennes
1989 Galerie Sous Sol Brest
PUBLICATIONS
2009 L’ame des pierres et de l’eau’ 19 drawings of Le Conquet
2012 ‘Brest, front de mer’ 43 drawings of Brest will be published February 2012
Philippe Kerarvran is Professor of Drawing at the Ecole des Beaux Art of Brest

from £3500 (mostly large format 140cm x 90cm