Thomas Saliot

Thomas Saliot, born in 1968, is divided between the French capital, where he opened a gallery, and Marrakech, where he has his studio and collaborates with his brother and photographer, Simon Saliot.








After studying graphic design at ESAG and Fine Arts in Paris, he began to exhibit his works in unusual spaces such as bars, pubs and discos, silently becoming a model of pop art in the 21st century.








Saliot has been painting and travelling for the last 20 years. He paints amazing figurative oil on canvases with bokeh style in some of his works that have the appealing out of focus effect.






"I work «free hand» from photos i find all over the web. It is a bit in the spirit of a blog (terrible word) where i use icomic images like snapshot of our centuries"









Thomas Saliot is an experienced painter whose works are kept in private collections all over the world. Using mainly a classical technique and style, although occasionally adding elements of abstraction or Pop art, he composes luminous representations of life and the individuals who navigate it.






From close-up paintings of freckled faces and fair skin to larger scenes of sunny seas and elegant women, Saliot's body of work ultimately proposes an atmosphere of observation, intrigue and personality.








His favorite subjects are women, inserted in an urban context different from time to time and the result of his thirty years of travel, thanks to which he came into contact with different cultures (obvious references to jazz and cinema) and perceptions of reality. In particular, his studies focus on the images proposed by the web - of which Tumblr is just an example - which he revisits in a personal version in oil on canvas, using nothing but a few brushes and his own fingers.








"I think the term" art "is overrated. What I do is craftsmanship and "art" is what it could become, but this is not a big problem for me ".











http://thomassaliot.art