The artist

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To look further, to question, to take risks that is the personality of Jean Fontan. He doesn’t like security or the certain. “Representation in painting isn’t really meaningful to me, unless it leads to a new form of creativity”.  He evokes an independent and unconventional style which allow him to develop a style of his own. “It’s pretty, it’s well done”: these words leave Jean indifferent.
He has the impression to have taken the wrong road when his work doesn’t touch people...
Work beyond the ordinary, eliminate the unimportant, the polish (polissé).
The painting has to take over. Forget about the technique, the paintbrushes, go where your inspiration takes you.
If the canvas of Jean Fontan leave with one such a strong impression maybe it’s because, to him, painting is endless quest : he advances, he looks for himself, rediscovers himself and takes off again with new knowledge, the painting enters him. “Painting, turns one toward adventure, toward a direction in harmony with my feelings.”

I go more often towards what I don’t know. I avoid at all cost
the obvious  and I create the painting for the painting.  “Painting” is a given gift that allows me to reach out to others. Jean Fontan can’t imagine his life without sharing. For this artist from Port Navalo, figuration versus abstraction isn’t worth discussing, art is beauty, all is correct.
Painting is an emotion that we can transmit to others. Therefore, it’s essential to be sincere even though one goes against the grain and bumps, against preconceived ideas. Jean Fontan is a free-spirited artist who aspires to go beyond his limits but this doesn’t come without risk. His tremendous energy, his appetite for life and his taste for discovery will always inspire and amaze us. With him, even words hold magic. Follow your heart and come speak to him in his workshop. You will be charmed by the location and the unique character of this artist.