Jean-Jacques Briquet

Born in Pontlevoy (Loir-et-Cher) in 1953, Jean-Jacques Briquet resides in Levoncourt in the Alsatian Sundgau region. He holds a diploma as a senior technician in Industrial Ceramics from Vierzon.

From 1979 to 1998, he served as graphic designer, layout artist, engraver, and screen printer for Swiss company Laufen, specializing in high-end decorative tiling.

Beginning in 2006, Briquet pursued self-taught painting training alongside his professional work. His first oil painting was a copy of Vermeer's "The Girl with the Pearl Earring," launching a figurative and feminine series drawing from Vermeer through Picasso until 2010.

From 2010 onward, Briquet explored acrylic painting. His mastery of photo screening and exposure to contemporary art museums inspired the creation of "Effervescente" in 2012 -- a pioneering work launching his "Bubble Grid Art" technique.

The Bubble Grid Art Technique: This involves painting on a 45-degree aligned point grid applied via stencil. Points transform into bubbles; additional spheres create crescendo effects, enabling the artist to manipulate light, transparency, and reflection to produce three-dimensional floating effects.

His artistic focus includes figurative work, particularly feminine faces and eyes with expressive qualities, animals and nature subjects, and three-dimensional and surreal bubble effects.

"The bubble is beautiful, the bubble is free, it flies reflecting images of life, happiness, dreams. It also carries speech... In my works, the bubble is active, it is networked and it is the bubble that creates life."

"A work must be surprising and original while remaining touching."

Awards and Recognition

• 2012: First Prize in Acrylic category, Zillisheim International Painting Salon for "Effervescente"
• 2013: Prize from the municipality
• 2014: Public Prize; Saint-Tropez gallery exhibition; Carrousel du Louvre Art Shopping exhibition
• 2015-2016: Multiple exhibitions and honors across French and Swiss venues

Gallery: jjbriquet.com