Jean-Philippe Maillard et Pascal Lemoine
Peinture et verre
From 12 September to 5 October 2025
In collaboration with Ulrich Perren, gallery owner, at Galerie St Bonnet, Dully, La Côte.
Jean-Philippe Maillard
A singular and contemporary artist
Jean-Philippe Maillard stands out through an artistic approach deeply rooted in family tradition and intense personal research.
Coming from a line of architects, he cultivated a taste for drawing and visual expression from an early age, supported by a family environment conducive to creation. A remarkable discipline characterizes his practice; he works every day, from dawn, demonstrating great discipline and total commitment to his art.
His journey combines teaching, illustration, drawing, sculpture and painting, nurturing a rich and varied vision of the visual arts. Working exclusively flat, his works can be viewed in all four directions. Moreover, he always signs on the back of the canvas to preserve the freedom of interpretation of the work. Jean-Philippe Maillard favors palettes composed of 4 to 5 colors per canvas, ensuring visual harmony and chromatic unity that avoid "aggressing" the eye.
His painting, imbued with abstraction without abandoning references to reality (gleams, reflections, asphalt cracks...), conveys emotions rather than a faithful representation of the world. He confronts nascent lights and shadow zones, thicknesses and transparencies, glazes and earthy materials, offering works that are both vibrant and meditative.
Through his choice to never fix the image with a visible signature and the regular rotation of his canvases, he invites the viewer to an open, plural and participatory experience. These qualities make Jean-Philippe Maillard a singular and contemporary artist, whose work invites a true exploration of sensations and matter, ideal for arousing curiosity.
Denys Jaquet
Recent exhibitions:
- 2024 Prahins
- 2023 La Tour-de-Peilz and Fleurier
- 2022 Montreux Art Gallery
Pascal Lemoine
An exceptional glassmaker and an artist with unique inspiration
Pascal Lemoine is a glass artist renowned for his deeply sensitive and innovative approach to blown glass, blending technical mastery with poetic expression. His works, both powerful and singular, possess a quality of brilliance and fascination comparable to that of nature, like water or fire, through their complex plays of light, transparency and opacity. His creations are "photographs of a passage between two states," symbolizing transformation and the crystallization of time, like geological phenomena such as volcanic eruptions or erosion.
Pascal Lemoine plays with the light that passes through his pieces, alternating transparency and opacity, light and dark colors, raw texturing and polishing, to reveal infinite complexity and fascinating duality. He creates his pieces by blowing glass in specialized workshops, then reworks them cold at home, using thermal and mechanical treatments, sandblasting, enameling, tempering, to push the material to its limits and trigger unique aesthetic reactions. Manipulating glass like artisan magma, kneading it, covering it with opaque layers, then scraping it, cracking it to progressively reveal the inner light, thus creating works in perpetual evolution.
The integration of other elements like earth reinforces the symbolism of his works by evoking life, mother earth, and the duality between the impenetrable and the essence.
Pascal Lemoine embodies through his work a profound dialogue between fragility and strength, tradition and modernity, rigorous technique and poetic imagination. His ability to reveal the infinite complexity and beauty of glass makes him an exceptional glassmaker and an artist with unique inspiration. His creations are as much art objects as windows open onto a contemplation of the world and time in mutation.
Denys Jaquet
His works radiate in France and internationally, exhibited in several countries (China, USA, United Kingdom, Sweden, Emirates, Germany, Switzerland, and others).
Winner of several artisan and artistic awards, notably the Departmental Prize of the Chamber of Trades and Crafts (2015) and the Regional Prize of Ateliers d'Art de France (2014).