Luc – a French artist
Luc’s painting gallery
« Peace is the most precious treasure we possess. » Luc
Luc is a French artist whose work is part of an introspective and spiritual pictorial approach. Trained at the age of 14 at the Beaux-Arts de Rouen, he has since devoted himself to oil painting, exploring a unique visual universe dominated by blue, frontality, and silence.
He paints exclusively in oil on canvas, a technique he fully embraces in a world increasingly dominated by acrylic, even among the greatest artists. Without denigrating acrylic enthusiasts or connoisseurs, he asserts that oil has a unique ability to make subjects present, alive, and almost eternal, provided it is respected and well-maintained. For him, this medium is not just a technical choice, but a commitment to durability, density, and pictorial truth.
His career is rooted in a family history deeply tied to art. He is the grandson of Michel Lamy, alias PATT, illustrator of the Journal de Rouen, and on his maternal side, of Jacques Morin, a student of Charles Frechon—a close friend of Monet. A remarkable anecdote: during the First World War, the latter would take one or two of Frechon’s paintings with him to his trenches to decorate his space. As a child, Luc regularly spent time in Giverny, at the family estate of his uncle François Lamy, the village mayor, allowing him to stroll in Monet’s gardens and pay his respects at the family cemetery, a few steps from the Impressionist master’s grave. He also grew up surrounded by the works of Trividic, who paid for his lawyer grandfather’s legal services with sketches.
A former student of the Japanese master Isao Takahashi, living in Besançon, Luc also taught visual arts and collaborated as an illustrator for national institutions such as the Gendarmerie and AXA. He has exhibited in prestigious venues, notably at Rouen Cathedral, where his works were showcased for six months. This exhibition was dedicated to the theme of icons and included large canvases depicting Saint Theresa, John Paul II, Joan of Arc, Saint Paul, and other spiritual figures. This universe of religious reference gradually transformed into a more internalized expression: blue, omnipresent in his current work, has become the vehicle for this spirituality.
Today, at over sixty years old, Luc conceives each of his works as a modern icon—not dogmatic but inhabited—an image of peace, calm, and hope. For him, painting is a form of prayer: a silent dialogue between the soul and God.
Alongside his pictorial practice, Luc is also a writer. He is the author of the saga of Celestino Luminoso, an artist in search of the meaning of life. Through this literary work, he explores the same themes as in his painting: inner searching, the beauty of the world, and the mystery of existence. One of the most striking parts of this series, L’Œuvre Bonheur, offers the reader a luminous vision of what might await us in the future—a moment of pure happiness offered with simplicity and depth.
Rejecting any speculative logic, Luc does not sell his originals, but offers limited reproductions to those who wish to take home a trace of his world. His painting invites an attentive gaze, a pause, a form of silent presence in a world saturated with speed.