Bertrand Girard

Artist Bertrand Girard paints Parisian scenes purely from his imagination. His impressionistic cityscapes give a sense of nostalgia for everyday life in France.

According to him, “Painting is like writing a story, reflections before a blank page, waiting for an idea to arrive, grasping inspiration when it apprears and brings the appropriate flavor to a scene…” For me, painting is not so much about technical prowess as about bringing an imaged language to fruition.

Driven by nostalgia, I began painting imagined scenes of people in cafés, in restaurants, in Parisian cityscapes or in scenes from life.
Painting is not only about showing what one sees, but about imagining reality with lines and color…”