‘Pictures reduced to dots and carefully coloured – Loïc Raguénès exposes a world we had almost forgotten.’ – Elisabeth Wetterwald

French painter Loïc Raguénès (1968 – 2022) lived and worked in the scenic western coastal province of Brittany, and was inspired by his sublime surroundings. Natural elements such as the weather, con powerfully informed his artistic practice, in particular the relentless, everlasting motion of the ocean. Largely abstract in their execution and composed of delicately rendered figurative forms and shapes, Raguénès’ lyrical paintings are an homage to the particular spirit of Brittany.

Born in Besançon in 1968, Loïc Raguénès was a former graduate of the Beaux-Arts institute of Besançon. He was the subject of several solo exhibitions at C L E A R I N G, both in New York, Brussels and Beverly Hills, and other notable exhibitions have been held at De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France; Musée François Pompon, Saulieu, France; Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland and Galeria Zero, Milan, Italy.