About Me and my Art.I am Pierre Emmanuel, French European, creator of DrawInside. In 2008, i quit my day job in engineering and moved to Dublin. My ambition was to be an artist. The point was i don't have a proper style, neither degree in Art, just passionate and self taught. So i started with what i was good at : plein-air painting in the impressionist way of working. Climate conditions were challenging and i needed to clamp my easel to the ground due to gusty winds. Then I did acrylic painting in Dublin, it had time to dry before two showers but the pots were heavy and hauling 1 square meters frames was not easy. So i did watercolors but the irish weather was too wet, and the only things i did were blured views of Dublin. ************************************* I wanted to get less material to haul and work fast in public Area, but with a great respect to nature, so... ************************************** So i get rid of everything and took a white Organic chalk and start to draw a line, directly on the pavement, and this is how it started... I did one line drawing, spreading.... I start to give a general shape to my intricate doodles The general shapes became recognisable faces And the doodles inside became stories about who i was drawing. This was the concept but i needeed an aproval, not the aproval of the gallery or connoisseurs. *************************************** I needed the audience approval and challenge myself wis this simple question : am i ready to work as an Artist ? So i took my ink and white canvas instead of a chalk and cycled out of the studio with my cardboard box to put money in and start to draw in a busy street of Dublin. Knees on the ground, drawing my line, i was working and waiting for a feedback. ....and it came, and i knew at this time that there was something in my art that could give emotions ! My first Inside drawing was done in 2010, and since this time i'm improving the technic, and put something in my pictures i really believe in. *************************************** I moved to Barcelona in 2010 and keep going with my drawings and started to sell on-line and improve the technic. I've been busy near the MNAC drawing local celebrities and thoses who were coming in BCN for a Concert... *************************************** In 2015, I and my family moved back to Homeland in France were i continue to work as an Artist and run my printing Workshop and continue to draw originals with different themes like the dogs and cities.... Pierre-Emmanuel January 2016 |
Clients• Where are my Art collectors
• Celebrities |
Awards - Exhibitions• First Prize at the Luas Art Competition 2008 and second prize in 2009.
• First Prize at the Spanish Postal services Correos Competition 2012. |
Exhibitions• Ilac - Dublin 2008
• Northsider - Dublin 2009 • I Fish Dublin - 2010 • Cathedral Studio - 2009 • Barcelona - 2011 • Full List |
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