François BARDET (1963)

Contemporary painter exhibited at Galerie Catherine Pennec in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (France) in 2022

Biography

With a scientific background, François Bardet first worked as an engineer in the creation of new products and then in vehicle dynamics. He then turned to teaching and research in image processing for computer vision applications. As a self-taught artist he co-produced several shows and interactive sound installations with musicians and dancers, based on the use of gesture, between 2003 and 2009. He has also been painting with watercolors since 2000. From 2010, he began to paint with oils, which is becoming an increasingly essential part of his work.

The paintings by François offer us indoor and outdoor settings that arouse our curiosity: the desire to discover what's at the end of the street, the countryside in front of the open window, the palpable expectation of the characters depicted. A peaceful parenthesis in such a hectic world.

Solo exhibitions 

2026 | MONTAUBAN | "État d'Âme" | Maison du Crieur

2026 | LE PUY EN VELAY | Galerie J.C. Simon | Hôtel du Département

2026 | PÉRIGUEUX | Galerie l'App'Art

2026 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Le Patio des Volcans

2025 | UZÈS | "Voyage en Méditérannée" | Jardin Médiéval d'Uzès

2024 | ORCET | Maison des Comtes

2023 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Le Patio | Librairie Les Volcans

2023 | BRIOUDE | Maison de Mandrin

2022 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | « Carte Blanche du Prix du Public »

2021 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Le Patio | Librairie Les Volcans

2020 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Le Patio | Librairie Les Volcans

Collective exhibitions

2025 | PARIS | Public Prize ofSalon de Printemps Artistes du V

2025 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | « Les Arts en Balade »

2023 | SAINT-MICHEL-SUR-ORGE | "Portes Ouvertes" | L’Atelier du rêve

2023 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exposition with Isabelle Bardet (painting) et Eric Slachmuylders (photo) | "Les Arts en Balade"

2022/23 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Galerie Catherine Pennec

2021 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Public prize « Les Arts en Balade »

2021 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Centre Camille-Claudel

2021 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exhibition with Eric Slachmuylders (painting) | « Les Arts en Balade » - Clermont-Ferrand (63)

2020 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exhibition with Isabelle Bardet (painting) | « Les Arts en Balade »

2018 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exhibition with Taisiia Cherkasova (painting) | Hall de la Petite Rue

2017 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exhibition with Eric Slachmuylders (photo) | « Les Arts en Balade »

2016 | CLERMONT-FERRAND | Exhibition with Eric Slachmuylders (photo) | « Les Arts en Balade »

2014 | SAINT-MICHEL-SUR-ORGE | Collective Exhibition | l’Atelier du rêve