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Lives in France near Paris. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts School. He works with drawings, watercolors, paintings, and he also writes fables, tales and short stories. He is a Director of three animated short movies and he is a member of the Alphonse Allais Academy.
Some of the French Bookshop Editions that Gilles-Marie has written include: Albums for Youth; The Love Letter (text and drawings by the Author). Farandole Publishing. France. Beaugency reward, Angalis, La Poste reward, The Narrow Piglet (text and drawings by the Author), Sylemma Andrieu Publishing, France. Albums for the general public; Sexual Life of Robots (texts and drawings by the Author), Souffle Publishing, France. Collection of 30 short stories and 60 drawings and paintings. Preface by Albert Jacquard. Alphonse Allais Academy reward.
Illustrations for Press Magazines include: Covers for L'Express, Le Monde des Affaires, La Vie Francaise, Le Point, Le Nouvel Economiste, 50 Millions, Northeast, Le Moniteur, Metal Hurlant, Messages, L'Evenement du Jeudi, Logistique Magazine, Speak Easy, La Vie. Inside Drawings for Roland Garros Magazine, L'Evenement, L'Express, Play Boy, Le Monde, Le Point, L'Entreprise, Marie France, Marie Claire, Sciences et Avenir, Science & Vie, Science & Vie Junior, 60 Millions, Enfants Magazine, Parents, Notre Temps, Madame Figaro, Vital, Telestar, Telerama, Strategies, Communication & Business, Venture (US), Geo (US), Expression, Figaro Thematique, Cosmopolitan, Selection du Reader Digest, Biba, La Vie, Le Monde Informatique, Micro-Hebdo, Reseaux et Telecoms, Depeche Mode, J'economise, etc.
What he likes in watercolors is the lightness, its clearness, the quality of the light that passes through. He uses watercolor ink, felting pen, and pencils above the white color of the paper. The white color of the paper is the most important aspect and it is abyss and used for the strength. From that aspect depends on the expressive quality of the colored mass and therefore of the whole piece of work. In correspondece to music when silence makes alive sounds, white color makes alive colors. Finding too many colors without any white will make the piece of work confront, fight and tear down each other. It can also sound like noise and the work will lose its strength and energy to meet the huge cemetery of the dead image. A non-stop hammered sound gives a hypnotic, reduced and totalitarian effect, even though when music breathes, it affects us into the dupest. Inspiration, expiration.......
Concerning the movement of the pencil or of the pen, it must stay free. Coming back to the instinctive movement of small children is without a doubt the most difficult and longest achievement to reach. He thinks about the jazz piano fingers in which improvises. Even if there is a first idea at the beginning, a harmonic concept, there are starting points that are made to be given away.
The whole work is in the pencil and not in the head. |
