Thomas Lesigne

“Frequent travel during my childhood fostered a geographical memory, nourished my taste for travel and helped develop my sense of observation.

The images I create come from observations of reality. Notes taken in numerous notebooks, film and Polaroid photographs provide me with the material I draw from. 

I situate my work at the confluence of drawing, painting, and comics. I borrow certain framing techniques from the world of cinema and westerns, which I particularly like: I use focus on body parts to fragment my characters and delay their presentation. This allows me to introduce a memory or an action into a given space.

The frontality of the portrait interests me little in my practice, I give primacy to the atmosphere of the places and to the posture of my characters. The idea of sanctifying and sacralizing expanses of the earth seems poetic to me and I like to draw these solitary figures, lost in their thoughts in the middle of these forms which surpass them.

Born in 1989, Thomas lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.