Simon Marais lives and works in Angers, his hometown. A draftsman since childhood, he trained in comic book art at the Pivaut School in Nantes before devoting himself to oil painting. Admiring the creative process more than the result, he patiently developed a personal pictorial language, inspired by Impressionism. His work seeks to suspend time: landscapes and everyday scenes become sensitive moments where light reveals the emotion felt by the painter and conveyed to the viewer.