Patrick Chartol - Topic

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I am a French self-taught painter. I am also a composer, musician, multi-media artist and Vj. You may not know my name but there is a good chance that you have already heard my music because I am a composer of film scores and music for images. I lived 4 years in Istanbul, Turkey and I have the chance to travel and live through music. Alongside my job as a composer-musician, I have been painting for over twenty years. For me, music and visual arts are constantly connected; each discipline enriches the other. The sounds and images respond to each other as in a game of mirrors. I paint a lot at night. I like the silence, the fact of not being disturbed, of being able to concentrate, of not having any specific schedule. I grind, I mix, I erase, I start again until dawn. Painting allows me to forget all my worries. When I create a painting, I am in the present moment, nothing matters anymore and I take intense pleasure in floating in a journey of colors, shapes, harmonies.