"To paint or dream is almost the same thing. It's important to paint your dreams, because that's where the meaning of life is hidden.
The technique is very important. Paradoxically, we must try to preserve this almost hypnotic state during the elaboration of the table, and at the same time be precise and lucid as to how to achieve it. I try to make the material of my painting as invisible, as transparent as the glass of a window through which we would look at the world.
The theme of the boat is one of the most spontaneous that can come to the human spirit. When I paint a boat, it is always in the middle of the water, between two banks. I only imagine the boats on very calm waters.
For many years I frequented the Museum of Natural History to admire the wonderful and terrifying monsters of the Cretaceous. They often come to haunt my painting as disturbing travelers.
I have in my boxes a lot of documents that I am collecting. I know that at some point they will become part of my painting, but it's often several years after I've got them. I forget them, but they do a long job of crawling in my mind and they manage to hoist themselves on the canvas. It is very curious because it is a process that escapes me completely. Why do images arise at a specific moment?
Being young, I painted buried forms, some kinds of fossils, and also mummies that were for me the chrysalis of the human being. Gradually, these forms unfolded and are now standing, with all their limbs. Probably because I stand better myself.
Words to talk about painting are difficult to choose because they often amplify and distort what should remain an emanation. Maybe it's better to shut up. "


Michel Henricot

Hi-Resolution Reproductions were made in day-light conditions at the location of the artist's studio in Paris. Photo's and editing by  MickWillemsen/Madstudio

 

 

 

 

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