Breathtaking Oil Paintings by Christian Jequel (15 total)

French artist Christian Jequel uses a painting knife to create bright, colorful paintings that depict beautiful scenes of nature - a departure from what most of us are probably used to seeing. Each of his vibrant pieces are full of movement and celebrate the fact that we live on such a beautiful planet.

"I was born with a gift," Jequel says. "I became an autodidact (self-taught) when I realized no one else could teach me because I had my own style. The funny thing is, I am now asked to give lessons in spatula painting to art students."

Jequel says his pictures are painted 80 percent from memory and the rest from photos he takes for research. He says that he is a "witness" of his time and his pictures will one day be a record of how life was lived in many of the coastal towns and villages in Southern France.

Christian Jequel's website

Tags: Art, Breathtaking, Knife, Painting, paintings

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Comment by Greg on February 10, 2011 at 8:35am: I love the use of color and the almost cubed brushstrokes. Very unique style and a pleasure to the eye.

Comment by Lyonya Ivanec on March 13, 2010 at 5:45am: Truly amazing, colors so vivid... I like how some of the paintings has this additional depth because of thick brush-strokes on the contour of figures.

Comment by Anisha Gupta on March 12, 2010 at 8:26pm: These are really wonderful. I am a huge fan of Impressionism and I kind of see a connection here. It's great that he taught himself. That's just incredible! Another artist I think of when I see is Leonid Afremov