Jean Claude Bertrand grew up with the deep conviction that he would become a painter. From a very young age, he showed a profound artistic sensibility that led him to enroll at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Nancy, from which he graduated in 1970. His academic training gave him a rigorous mastery of drawing, composition, and art history, while nurturing a freedom of expression that he would develop over the decades.
For more than twenty years, he pursued a career in advertising and communications, where he held creative and strategic positions. This experience gave him a keen understanding of visual language, images, and audiences.
Through his exposure to music, particularly jazz, his artistic approach was enriched with a sensory and synesthetic dimension. He discovered that each sound vibration could be transposed into movement, light, or matter. This deep connection between the senses became the foundation of his artistic research.
In 1997, a major personal event led him to make a decisive change: he left the world of communications to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1998, he became a full-time painter. This commitment became a way of life, an inner necessity.
He set up his studio in Astaffort, in southwestern France, and for more than twenty-five years has been developing a demanding and sensitive body of work, praised for its uniqueness and sensory depth. His work, exhibited in France and internationally, explores memories, rhythms, light, and the musicality of color through collections such as Nature, Music, Perfume, Wine, Writing, and From Oil to Gold.
Jean-Claude Bertrand bases all his artistic research on sensory memories, the musicality of color, and the cycles of life. Through matter, light, and time, he explores visual rhythms and the structuring of the senses in pictorial space.
His works are part of private collections in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Morocco.
For more than twenty years, he pursued a career in advertising and communications, where he held creative and strategic positions. This experience gave him a keen understanding of visual language, images, and audiences.
Through his exposure to music, particularly jazz, his artistic approach was enriched with a sensory and synesthetic dimension. He discovered that each sound vibration could be transposed into movement, light, or matter. This deep connection between the senses became the foundation of his artistic research.
In 1997, a major personal event led him to make a decisive change: he left the world of communications to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1998, he became a full-time painter. This commitment became a way of life, an inner necessity.
He set up his studio in Astaffort, in southwestern France, and for more than twenty-five years has been developing a demanding and sensitive body of work, praised for its uniqueness and sensory depth. His work, exhibited in France and internationally, explores memories, rhythms, light, and the musicality of color through collections such as Nature, Music, Perfume, Wine, Writing, and From Oil to Gold.
Jean-Claude Bertrand bases all his artistic research on sensory memories, the musicality of color, and the cycles of life. Through matter, light, and time, he explores visual rhythms and the structuring of the senses in pictorial space.
His works are part of private collections in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Morocco.
