Jean Labourdette Turf One

"As far as I can remember, I just never stopped painting. I started as a little kid and just never stopped creating images. I have no formal training in Arts. I started doing Graffiti in Paris when I was about 12 and I think that's what introduced me to the notion of having a public, which motivated me to constantly increase the quality of my work...

At 18, I decided I was done with school and started working right away using my skills, doing illustrations and comics, a bit of animation, videos... I spent a few years working mostly as a commercial artist, painting for myself on the side. Eventually, I gradually started taking less and less commercial contracts to focus mostly on my personal work as a painter. My subjects are very much dictated by my unconscious and the images emerging from it. I try not to rationalize too much because I feel like I can touch something special if I paint with my soul rather than my head...

I am inspired by religious art, carnival sideshow Art, the Flemish primitives, Folk Art, Rembrandt and Velasquez amongst others..."

Interview with Jean Labourdette (Turf One)