Jean-Francois Dor, the Artist.
In 1988, he founded the European Open Platform to help artists exhibit their works in unconventional spaces such as offices, making the Art world come into the work space. In London, he exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Arts Club, The Embassy of France and Banque Paribas. His pictures are held in various collections worldwide. He always signed his pictures with a quadruple C interlinked and intertwined.
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Thank you for visiting my page, I live and work in London now for longer than my native Belgium. I started painting aged 15 as I was fascinated by all art forms and particularly paintings of Hyeronimus Bosch. “The Garden of Earthly Delights” inspired me as it did to Miro, Calder, Dali, Picasso and many others but many other artists fascinated me in a rather ecclectic perhaps eccentric mix, Yves Klein and "Old Masters"
In the 80's as I arrived in London, I used to sign and be secretively known as "X", possibly as very few could pronounce my name then but also as J-F. I brushed shoulders and more :-) with Anthony d'Offay, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Gilbert and Georges, Gerard Richter, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and many others.
I founded the European Open platform helping artists exhibit their work in unconventional spaces and at the work place, thus my first exhibition was at Banque Paribas in the City of London.
Since, I exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Festival Hall, The Arts Club, the French Embassy and the Banque Paribas amongst many places and some of my works now belong to private & public collections around the world.
I use vibrant colours and my paintings are often closer to abstraction before you may, perhaps surprisingly, discovers a figure or a symbol. It reflect my love for life, arts and people.
I was told that some works are strangely close to primitive art, with some mysterious and unexpected insight into past and lost civilisations.
Most of my work is acrylic paint, mixed media, inks, watercolours, gouaches, oil pastel, seaweeds and other materials. I sign my work with a quadruple C letter interlinked and intertwined that ressemble a very sophisticated "X".
Enter my universe where the frontier between reality and illusion becomes unclear and you discover another world.
I was chairman of the Arts Club Charitable Trust promoting the Arts for many years. As such I was invited to judge various prestigious awards, mainly in London, such as BITE, The excellence in drawing award and various other awards with judges such as Sir Peter Blake, RA & Philip Mould.
For further information, interview request, visit of the studio and gallery, my home, works and price list (there is a lot more than on this website), please contact me on 07831 78 22 00 or email me on jeanfrancoisdor@gmail.com
I very much look forward to hearing from and to meeting you soon.
Yours,
J-F.
Jean-François Dor, the artist.
Exhibitions
Jun-88 Banque Paribas - The City of London Joint exhibition
Oct-89 Royal Festival Hall Joint exhibition
Feb-90 The French Embassy - London Solo exhibition
Jun-92 The Royal Academy of Arts The Summer Exhibition
Jan-08 London Art Fair - Battersea Park Joint exhibition
Jun-08 La Galleria - Pall Mall Joint exhibition
Oct-09 The Art Club - Mayfair Annual Members' Exhibition
Oct-12 The New Cavendish Club - Mayfair Lady Sandra Bates and Jean-Francois Dor Autumn's Exhibition
Oct-12 Alpha Gallery - Cork Street Joint exhibition
Mar-12 La Galleria - Pall Mall Joint exhibition
Nov-12 The Gallery on the Corner - Battersea Joint exhibition
Jun-14 Walthamstow Library The Art Trail, joint exhibition
Mar-15 Brands Exchange - City of London Solo exhibition
Jean-François Dor, the artist.
"Eccentric Owl"
Acrylic paint on canvas 48x48cm
"Regal heart on a pear"
Acrylic paint on canvas 91x121cm
"The Carousel of my mind"
Acrylic paint on canvas 50x70cm
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Sunshine in a valley with a long river
Acrylic on canvas 2
Jean-François Dor, the artist.
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"Reggae is up!
Acrylic on canvas 48x48cm
Jean-François Dor, the artist.
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