Jean Lagadec was born in Paris and his art was cultivated on the Left Bank where he was found mixing in art and jazz communities of the late 1950's. Settling in England in the early 1960s, Lagadec continued in his artistic pursuits both speculatively, managing his own gallery in Brighton. Jean has his works held in private collections in Great Britain, the continent, Africa, North America and Australia.
Jean describes his recent work as a development and fascination with light and shade on his subjects, expressing a transcendental and sensual vision of abstracted beauty. His work is the visual poetry; a playful exploration of form and structure, enticing the viewer to decipher what the image may offer. With such simplicity of line and a bare hint of shadow, what may appear at first to be abstract form crystallises into a clearly defined image.
Lagadec's work offers expressive possibilities, and while in themselves pieces of undeniable aesthetic elegance, force us to contemplate and interpret rather than to meekly observe and pass over. Opposing the Western view that a painting is finished when you cannot add anymore to it, he prefers the Eastern concept about art, that a work is finished when you cannot take any more out!
