Jean Claude Picard

Born in 1943 he began his career as a poster - and scene painter and furthered his education as a freelance artist in many European countries. From 1965 he was working in Cologne, Germany, and conducted several painting schools and international art seminars. Since 2000 he has been living and working in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Jean-Claude Picard's style is an atmospheric natural view with the compositional freedom that creates a sense of visual reality.

In his youth, he discovered Provence, Roussillon and Catalonia to be a painter's paradise and returns to each region as often as possible. These austere landscapes withe their tremendous light are subject to his mostly large-scaled pictures. In rural, pastoral scenes, between the sunny hills and shady pinewoods, he has found the atmosphere that he needs for his individual style.

On his forays into nature, Picard only works with a sketch block and watercolour paints and converts his impressions with elaborate technique in his studio. he aspires to bring together his impressions in a specified ordering, using prismatic patterns to enhance the shining spring and autumn colours and the gentle hills.