Charles Jaulerry

Born in Bayonne in 1981, Charles Jaulerry studied graphic art in Paris and New York, where he worked for four years in the archives of Marlborough Gallery.À€â€š'' He began painting in New York, before returning to his home in Arcangues, in the Basque Country, where he developed a technique using collage to create paintings inspired by his natural surroundings and particularly by the flight of birds.

"Drawing inspiration from the work of Jackson Pollock and from Mike Kelley's Memory Ware Flats, I use bits and pieces of materials stored in my studio to create collages giving a sensation of movement and weightlessness when placed on the canvas. I aim to combine abstraction with figurative representation.

"From a distance, the collages merge with the painted background of the canvas. From close up, you see the birds created in relief using fragments of dried paint, scraps of old paper, bits of canvas and other mediums that I have experimented with and kept over the years."