Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie

Mathieux-Marie was born in Paris in 1947 and has been honored throughout his career with awards and exhibitions. His unique style of using a diamond point to scratch an image into a steel plate is complemented by his own methods of printing on one paper in the style of chine colle. The image is then cut out and mounted to another stronger paper.
 
He has done many engravings to illustrate livres d’artistes for the works of great writers like Michel Déon, Federico Garcia Lorca, Julien Gracq or Francis Ponge.

While many of his subjects are recognizable as famous destinations in Paris, Rome and Venice, they go much further than mere illustration. He has also worked on fantastical subjects where the full range of his creativity can be seen. He was initially trained as a architect, receiving his degree in 1972, but was soon introduced to dry-point engraving in 1974.

BIOGRAPHY
1947 Born in Paris
1971 Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1984 Prix de la ville au Salon de Bayeux
1984 Paul-Louis Weiller Prize, Academy of Fine Art
1994 Grand Prize du Salon des Artistes Francais

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Royal Academy of Fine Art in Madrid
Bibliotheque Historique de Paros
Musee Baron Gerard
Bibliotheque de Bayeux
National Library of Paris
National Library of Spain
Musee de Dignes

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1997 Gallery Kieffer, Paris
1994 Galery Horizon, Paris
1993 Gallery Breheret, Paris
1993 Musee Baron Gerard, Bayeux
1992 Hotel de Ville de port en Bessin
1992 Gallery Michelle Broutta, Paris
1991 Gallery Etienne de Causans, Paris
1990 Gallery Actuaryus, Strasbourg
1990 Gallery l’Angle aigu, Bruxelles
1990 Gallery Vermeer, Nantes