Jean Pierre Bedarrides

Jean-Pierre Bedarrides was born in Aix-en-Provence on 15 March 1954.
From his youngest age he was attracted by drawing an colour, and started a carreer as a technical and advertising draughtsman.
He was first attracted by landscapes and by water-colour painting, his first exhibition took place in Aix-en-Provence in 1985.
In 1986, a publisher asked him to illustrate a work about Aix-en-Provence in water-colours.
Then, highly interested in chiaroscuro and still-life painting, he turned to oil painting. As always concerned with details and the good quality of his work, he makes his supports himself (canvas fixed on wood panels with skinglue and palster) and paints with thinned amber. This technique had been used by the Flemish painters since the 13th.C.
After several journeys in Marocco, elated by the beauty of landscapes and light, he realize 2 exhibition in Aix-en-Provence, on this theme where were grouped still-life painting and landscapes.