Hanniet | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

As a child, Marc only had one art book at home. This book about Van Gogh was his mother's precious belonging. He looked through it ceaselessly and was fascinated by a painting of a caravan of travellers. At age 10 his mother took him to the Jeu de Paume Museum, which housed the impressionist collections. On leaving this museum he had only one ambition: to be an artist in his own right. Conceiving gestures as "the masterful complement of the idea", this engineer from Senlis began painting for pleasure before becoming a professional painter artist in 2003 alongside his paid employment. Six years later, when the company employing him was restructured, he decided to give it all up to dedicate himself solely to producing his works. "Captivated by the great designers, [he] had a great admiration from early on for Rembrandt, Ingres, Egon Schiele, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse and Picasso, but [was] also a fan of organic liberty that - according to him - Paul Klee, Jean Arp or William Turner feed their works with."