Artistic approach
” The tree is a language, a bridge between heaven and earth, a memory of time and a breath of fresh air. For decades, my painting has been in dialogue with it, seeking to reveal its essence, capture its energy and translate its metamorphoses.
At first, it was texture: fragments of bark that became abstract territories, sensory imprints marking the wear and tear of time. Using dripping techniques, I tried to capture the erosion, the crumbling, the tension between strength and fragility. The tree then appeared in the form of traces, almost spectral imprints.
Then, from subject, it became medium. Its branches became my brushes, extending my gesture with their own movement. Its ashes, the charred remains of burnt forests, were incorporated into my painting, transforming it into a material of resurgence.
To paint with trees is to accept a co-creation in which nature imposes its own rhythm and imprint. It’s exhuming the invisible, revealing its wounds, scars and silent resistance. It’s abolishing the distance between subject and object, between gesture and material, in a quasi-phenomenological quest for the interdependence between support and living thing.
My approach is part of a broader reflection on the presence of plants in contemporary art. Where some artists document the tree or make it sacred, I seek to reveal its skin and the invisible. Far from a simple mimesis, my painting aspires to an encounter, a tactile dialogue with this living matter, sometimes bruised, always vibrant.
In this way, each of my canvases becomes a fragment of an ecosystem, a suspended memory. It is both relic and metamorphosis, testimony and resurgence. To paint with a tree is ultimately to paint with time, the time that is inscribed in its fibers, in its ashes, in its silences.”
Biography
Pierre-Luc Poujol was born in 1963 in Alès (Cévennes, FRANCE).
In 1984, he began brilliant studies in applied arts, from which he graduated top of his class (first prize in drawing, first prize in perspective, first prize in sketching).
After spending his time between France and the United States for several years, in 2018 he finally set up his workshop in the South of France, near Montpellier.
Influenced by the rural roots of his farming grandfather and lulled by the spiritual environment of his pastor father, Pierre-Luc Poujol develops an early sensitivity to the world and nature around him.
Acclaimed for his work and artistic commitment, he has won numerous prestigious awards. In particular, he was the winner of the international prize awarded by UNESCO for two-thousandth anniversary of the Nativity.
Pierre-Luc Poujol is also keen to forge links with museum institutions. From March 23 to May 26, 2024, he presented “Arborescences”, his new solo exhibition at the Musée Paul Valéry, featuring over 70 paintings and wood sculptures on the theme of trees and forests.
A committed artist, in spring 2022 he will become the first ambassador of the French NGO Coeur de Forêt, for which he will lend his voice and his tools in favor of preserving our biodiversity.
career
Museum exhibitions
Museum exhibition
2024
- “Arborescences” – Paul Valéry Museum
2020
- “Voyage à Giverny” – Paul Valéry Museum
Solo shows
Expositions personnelles & collectives
2024
- Loo & Lou gallery – Paris (France)
- “Empreinte” – Art-Scène Gallery – Paris (France)
2023
- “The art of living” – Hugo Gallery – Soho, New-York (Etats-Unis)
- House of the Occitanie Region – New-York (Etats-Unis)
- “Symbiose” – Gallery Ida Médicis – Paris (France)
2022
- “Résonance” – Gallery Ida Médicis Galerie – Paris (France)
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Gallery Ariel Jakob – Paris (France)
2021
- Gallery Le Confort des Etranges – Toulouse (France)
- “Résonances” – Church of Saint Jean Baptiste – Castelnau-le-Lez (France)
- Nezhakanouni gallery – Marbella (Espagne)
- “The Forest call” – Gallery Ida Médicis – Paris (France)
2020
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- “Voyage à Giverny” – Gallery Ida Médicis – Paris (France)
2019
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Gallery Ida Médicis – Paris (France)
2018
- “Between the lines” – Gallery Ida Médicis – Paris (France)
- Gallery Acabas – Gstaad (Suisse)
- Gallery Maxanart – La bastide clairence (France)
2017
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Art Bastion Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
- Gallery Diptyk – Nantes (France)
- Gallery Maxanart – La bastide clairence (France)
2016
- “Drippings emotions” – Gallery Melting Art – Lille (France)
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
- Gallery ELV – Knocke (Belgique)
- Ricart Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
2015
- “Action dripping” – Gallery My Contemporary – Paris (France)
- Gallery Audrey Marty – Saint Malo (France)
- “Between the lines” – Ricart Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
2014
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
- “Entre les lignes” – Gallery 13 – Montpellier (France)
- Gallery Melting Art – Lille (France)
- Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
2013
- Exhibition under the patronage of the French Embassy in Luxembourg – Culture Inside Gallery – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- S&D Gallery – Londres (Royaume-Uni)
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
- Pavillon M exhibition for “Marseille-Provence, European Capital of Culture” – Marseille (France)
2012
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
- Artistic performance – BNP headquarters – Nanterre (France)
2011
- Private exhibition – Doha (Qatar)
- Gallery Acabas – Paris (France)
Group Exhibitions
Group exhibitions
2018
- “Dripping energy” – Pulse – Miami (Etats-Unis)
2017
- “Sur un arbre perché” – Domain of Restinclières (France)
- Maxanart Gallery – La bastide Clairence (France)
2016
- Art Bastion Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
- St’Art – Strasbourg (France)
2015
- Ricart Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
- “Scope” – Bâle (Suisse)
- “Scope” – Miami (Etats-Unis)
2014
- Ricart Gallery – Miami (Etats-Unis)
2011
- BMAC – Brooklyn (Etats-unis)
- Ward Nasse Gallery – New-York (Etats-Unis)
- Gallery Hors Champs, Paris (France)
2010
- Gallery Ida Médicis, Paris (France)
Private and public collections
Private and public collections
- Paul Valéry Museum (Sète)
- Region of Occitanie – Pyrénées / Méditerranée
- City of Divonne les bains
- City of Castelnau-le-Lez
- BNP Paribas Cardiff headquarters (Paris)
- FDI Group Headquarters (Montpellier)
- Art Bastion – Design District (Miami)
- Bishopric of Saint Jean Baptiste (Castelnau-le-lez)
Awards and Auctions
Awards and auctions
Awards
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2025
- Winner of the Rampp Foundation’s “Art and Nature” prize
2024
- Winner of “research” grant awarded by the ADAGP
2023
- Winner of the “video portrait” grant in collaboration with Arte Studio
2002
- Winner of the national competition for the creation of the official bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
2000
- Winner of the international competition for the creation of the Bethlehem 2000 logo under the auspices of UNESCO
Auctions
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2016
- Auctions for the benefit of AMFE, Maison Drouot, Paris
2013
- Auctions for the benefit of AMFE, Maison Drouot, Paris
2011
- Auctions for the benefit of AMFE, Maison Drouot, Paris
Ambassador of the NGO “Coeur de forêt”
Pierre-Luc Poujol, ambassador of Coeur de Forêt
In the spring of 2022, Pierre-Luc Poujol decided to commit himself to Coeur de Forêt by becoming the first ambassador of this French NGO dedicated to preserving forests and fighting deforestation.
This French association for the preservation of forests and the fight against deforestation has worked in France and internationally to protect and preserve woodland since 2005. It works through international programmes to restore degraded forest ecosystems, to support small-scale producers towards sustainable agriculture and forestry, to develop fair trade channels and to raise awareness among local populations.
To read more about Coeur de Forêt, click here
