Jean-Francois Hugues

The path of Jean-Francois Hugues is a sculptural and pictorial oeuvrage imbued with a strong knowledge of the principles of the construction. He freezes them on stone or canvas with messages and symbols of past civilizations.
He has been painting since the 1990s, and carved stone since 2003.
Strongly influenced by the construction science and archeology, he met with the civilizations and writings of Europe, Egypt, Asia, Tibet, India, China, Japan, ...
He works from symbols, calligraphy, and freezes or turns them on canvas or in stone.
He also produced contemporary sculptures by playing with shapes and colors of stone.
He creates classical calligraphy, modern calligraphy, paintings in oil or lacquer, and carves stone (granite, marble, ...) of all sizes.

He creates his works in workshops in France, and Italy (marble).
In 2007, he opened his workshop in Crolles.

Art work Tradition Most of is art work is mixing elements of tradition, symbols, mantras, mandalas, with stones; highlighting the strong relationship between universal symbols and natural forms already existing. All his stone art works starts from stone laying in his surrending, for months, even years. And one day, it happens: I know what form should join the stone. Then carving starts… and sometimes, the stone drives him on his own path… Calligraphy Travelling a lot around the world, connected with many different cultures, he is fascinated by Arabian, Chinese, … calligraphy. His medium there are ink for traditionnal painting, and stone.  He is also building personal calligraphy with my european language. Painting Large paintings are inspired from symbolic, construction science and art, mathematic history, emotional visualisation... The are mostly  "mix techniques" on canvas:  oil painting, acrylique, specially created colours, lak, gold leafs, … Size goes from 40x50cms to more than 150x180cms. Calligraphy Ink, oil, water colours, on various supports: paper, canvas, … Stones From the very small (jewellery size) to monumental (few meters), I work in the traditional way (without mechanical tool), or with diamond disks, air driven tools…