Matthieu Dorval 

Born in 1966, Brest, France

Living between Pointe Finistère and the west of Ireland, Matthieu Dorval explores the shades of blue that the horizon offers him to admire and his painting reflects the strength of the elements of the sea. His works, powerful and generous, do not reflect, do not appear; they penetrate the fabric of the landscape in its substance, its roots, its geological tremors, its secular time. 

Matthieu Dorval develops the plastic innovations of different abstract artists such as Jean Degottex (1918-1988), Cy Twombly (1928-2011) and neo-expressionists, such as Georg Baselitz (1938), Per Kirkeby (1938) and Miquel Barceló (1957). In this double line, Matthieu Dorval initiates a singular writing in direct connection with nature. The immediacy of his gesture, the vivacity of the colors, the harmony of his compositions express the unchanging poetic force of the elements.