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Aymar is a French visual artist, recently nationalized American. Although most of his work is on painting, he experiences with other media, such as video animation and sculpture. Born in Bordeaux (France) in 1973, his family is originally from Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) on his father’s side, and Normandy on his mother’s. He grew up between Normandy and Provence, and moved to the USA at the age of 23, where he stayed for 12 years living in New York, Miami and San Francisco. He moved to Madrid in 2009, where he currently resides.
Aymar has been painting for more than twenty years. Influenced early by his grandmother, who painted aquarelles based on Reunion’s landscapes and whose house was always filled with artistic and creative personalities, other direct influences early in his life include Pierre-Paul Ambroselli, a Normand sculptor focused on sacred art whose studio was on Aymar’s walk to school, as well as Albert Mallet, Bernard Pochon and other Normand post-impressionist and post-expressionist painters. When he moved to Provence at twelve, he found other direct influences, such as Maxime Richaud, a friend of the family.
He followed his calling to study Plastic Arts in Aix en Provence, then Art History in Montpellier, where he discovered some of his favorites: Kandinsky (Blaue Reiter), Fauvism, Italian Futurism, Nabism (Serusier, Bonnard)... Among the classics, he also admired the treatment of color and light of old masters such as Tiziano, Delacroix and Turner.
Once in the US, Aymar perfected his technique by working as a scenic artist and set designer for a number of years (you could actually think about many of his paintings today as the backdrop for a stage). He later had an incursion of six years into the world of business and new technologies, while part timing as a commissioned artist for interior designers. It is in mid 2009 that he seized the opportunity to focus entirely on his own creations and became a full time artist. His latest paintings are the result of all these years of research and work, mixed with his latest references: the Colombian painter Obregon, and the Japanese artists Hiroshige (painter) and Miyazaki (animation director).