BIOGRAPHY

My name is Jean-Claude Escoulin. I am a freelance artist, sculptor and painter.

I was born in the south of France and after living in Paris for 28 years, I have been living in Germany since 2011, where I have a large studio in the Münsterland region.

Arriving in Germany for love, I discovered the immensity of the northern skies, nature, birds and painted wood sculptures of Bavaria.

My training began with cabinetmaking and lutherie, followed by the Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, and above all experience, particularly with monumental sculpture symposia.

In my artistic approach, emotion guides my work.
The aim is to immortalize the existence of this emotion, regardless of style or medium.

I prefer to sculpt wood with a chainsaw. It’s the ideal tool for me.
Its power helps me to get straight to the heart of the matter, so I don’t lose the original energy and emotion driving my sculpture along the way.
Carving with a chainsaw gives the wood a very special texture that catches the light and makes the colors sing.

Particularly sensitive to ecology, social migration and the animal cause, my work shows how our reality and our points of reference are distorted in a world lost in fictitious and destructive values.
A mise en abîme where the work of art, by its very nature a shifted illustration of reality, seeks to recalibrate our vision of reality.

My abstract sculptures follow this emotion, felt in contact with everyday objects. They question our own value in an environment of consumables and disposables.

My animal sculptures seek to illustrate the particular qualities of each species, from the candor of the baby chimpanzee to the massive strength of the buffalo. When we destroy them, it’s our own qualities, our own values, that disappear with them.