Luc Hautbout

A strange professional journey: Higher education as a graphic designer from PENNINGHEN (master's degree) with academic drawings or nude sketches. 9 professions exercised:

• Farmer - Breeder
• Creator - Manufacturer of decorative objects
• Gallery owner in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
• Merchant - Decorator in Nîmes
• Host - Spa manager and certified Masseur near Avignon
• Builder of Tiny houses. (55 years old, married with 3 children).

A curious path: 2020: After 30 years of therapeutic approaches, I discover that I am a "twin born alone" and that this original accident leads me to a fusion quest with people, objects, spaces, and colors. 2022: In the context of COVID, repetitive incidents lead me to an introspection no longer psychological or spiritual but neurological. The official diagnosis soon falls: I am autistic without intellectual disability. In other words, with Asperger's syndrome. Classically, I have continually compensated so that nothing appears. Dizziness of consciousness, mourning, and progressive relearning of myself. Like a helpful friend, art (re)comes to me late. From an all-out worker-entrepreneur, here I am definitively an artist-painter. To love what is. My condition acts as a driver to touch others. “A work of art is good when it is born of a necessity. It is the nature of its origin that judges it ..." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Artistic approach: "Vibrations" is my way of showing. To paint in successive transparent layers and horizontal lines where each color gives its opinion. Vibrations between masses that respond to each other; vibrations between earth and sky, matter and energy. Vibrations with measure, surprise, and contemplative silence. Between portrait and landscape, memories and visions, I like when simplicity brings peace and truth..."