Added Jan 3, 2019
Thomas Formule discovered the visual arts in an art therapy group. He was looking for another means of expression. His long past practice of Judo inspires him in his painting where he often bypasses compositional barriers by flexibility and always seeks to bring movement to his achievements. Attracted by the vast outdoor spaces in nature - which he regularly rides with his bike - he likes to represent a panoramic view of his subjects. His work on Berlin starts from a specific place - Lake Plötzen - to move away and adopt a more distant view of the city.
His artistic subject is the search for points of rapprochement between a more bodily and instinctive apprehension of the world and a more analytical vision, using reasoning. That is to say, he is actually looking for points of rapprochement between the Eastern vision - as it is expressed in the practice of meditation and the martial arts, for example - and the Western vision-as it is is expressed in the Cartesian method and modern techniques and technologies. For this, he often uses the dragon as a symbol of the Asian approach and cities and their modern constructions as representative of the Western approach. He paints in acrylic and often uses collages printed from photos found on the internet, to evoke a city or a place that inspires him. His style is expressionist with the particularity of often melting an abstract part and a figurative part in the same composition.
Thomas Formule was born in France in 1979. He has a Master degree in Materials Sciences. His works on Singapore, Dubai and Berlin are the most representative of the artistic orientation he follows.