A non-protest artist, he strives instead to create beautiful painting, evoking the pleasure of painting and the luck of being alive.
Through this thought, humanity's place in our world is inevitably visible in his paintings; he even enjoys imagining a world without it...
The imagination therefore plays a large role in his work.
Self-taught, drawing since childhood, he began painting in his teens after discovering classical painting in encyclopedias.
His influences are numerous: from spiritual representation among the Egyptians to comics, including Japanese prints and Oriental calligraphy, Russian and Italian painting, the countless movements of the 20th century, but also the work of many amateur and unknown painters who have so often enabled him to progress.

"Finally, by dint of seeking a harmonious composition in my projects, finding a balance and a gesture full of surprises, composing in a subtle way a light which spreads in the canvas, I realize that it is after having swept away all these construction plans that I come out the best; improvisation is, in my case, a terrain where everything which comes to me seems to find its place on the canvas."

Sylvain Pernière

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